Breaking the Waves

[Mike Weaver]

Me , I reckon there's a whole lotta shoehorning going on.  Some of you
p-listers seem almost desperate to find TP's influence wherever you look.
As if  *breaking the wave*  was likely to be original to our Tom.   Breaking
the waves is a much more specific phrase and given the religious/miraculous
aspect of the film, a biblical Red Sea miracle reference is more likely ( I
haven't seen the film but a friend gave me a run down on it a few weeks back
so any more substantial connections I'm ignorant of)

Mind you, this search for Trier's influences isn't limited to this list.  In
the latest issue of New Love Gilbert (Love and Rockets) Hernandez has one of
his characters say that BTW is a film version of the L&R story Human
Diastrophism.  I'll have to see the film before I suggest Gilberto has gone
gaga but I can't connect that story and what I was told of the film either.  
        I do wonder if there aren't some p-listers who are *seeking to
perfect methods of immobility* ( or was that seeking perfect methods of
immobility).  Isn't that one of TP's point with regard to paranoia, plots
and connections,  that the search for significant connection is often an
attempt  to pin the world down and render it safe and free of chaos by
uncovering underlying patterns.  

 I was going to post this quote yesterday but then thought why bother.  But
it is of interest to us TP heads.  It is from a letter in the Guardian (the
British one) on a thread concerned with science and culture beliefs.

"Over 20 years ago John Klauber asked the same question: why do we hold
religious beliefs for which there is no evidence.  He suggested that the
chaotic uncertainties of infantile experience give rise to a need for faith
that they can be survived, and that religion recreates the myths by means of
which the infant justified his conviction.  Wiiliam Bion went so far as to
suggest that the compusion to search for causes (i.e. scientific
explanation) was not unlike paranoia.

      Byeee Mike
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