A Journey Into the Mind of P. / Halldor Laxness

[Carvill John]

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Also I found it quite ironic that the title of the film is 'A journey into 
the mind of P.", but most of the second half of the film, and what you could 
call the climax, concerns only the image of P.  Does anyone else have any 
critiques or comments on the film? >>

Yeah, I thought it was pretty bad. I agree with you that it left a slightly 
nasty taste in the mouth and seemed relentlessly focused on Pynchon as 
'reclusive' celebrity. There were some interesting bits, though not always 
interesting in what you could call a good way. On top of this, it was very 
amateur in terms of production values, how it was put together, and so on. 
Constant repeating footage - often barely relevant - accopmanied by grinding 
music, took up way too much running time. I would say that whoever made the 
documentary, they needed a lot more 'meat' before they had enough to justify 
making the film. They had maybe 10 or, to be generous, 20 percent of the 
amount of material they would need to make a worthwhile doc, in my opinion. 
And that guy who took the photos of Pynchon, I wanted to thump him almost as 
much as TRP probably did.

Cheers
JC