GR (The Movie)

[Bradley O'Neill]

 On Tuesday, Sept. 27, vjvaro at moose.erie.net wrote:

>I know this is way off-topic, but can anyone out there explain
>"Prospero's Books" to me!  A couple of years ago my wife and I picked it
>up at the video store, thinking that it looked interesting and in light
>of the fact that we liked "The Cook, the Thief...".  We were going to
>watch it while eating dinner but about all of two minutes into it we
>looked at each other and we both realized that we weren't going to be
>able to eat and watch at the same time...and there weren't even subtitles!
>
>Visually, I found the film utterly intriguing, but I've utterly no idea
>what I was watching.
>
 In one of life's little synchronicities, I just-literally-finished
watching _Prospero's Books_ and logged-on to check my email. I sympathize
with your bafflement, Vince. The film, as you may know, is an adaptation of
Shakespeare's _Tempest_, with a significant amount of imaginative
extrapolation. Ironically, I was thinking about our GR/Movie discussion
here as I watched it and found my mind doing the same kind of sensory
gymnastics that Pynchon evokes. The screen is flooded with so many
archetypes at any given moment, you really feel as if your mental state is,
well, bleeding? I found it quite disturbing/intriguing...if you know what I
mean.A really wide-bandwith film...I'd be interested to here reactions from
people.