A Journey Into the Mind of P. / Halldor Laxness

[Ya Sam]

I don't buy the hypothesis about Pynchon's 'guilt' and GR being an attempt 
of atoning for it.


>From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>To: cwecrocker at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: A Journey Into the Mind of P. / Halldor Laxness
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:51:38 +0000
>
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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
>
>

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