Woodstock - SPOILER ALERT
John Carvill
johncarvill at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 02:33:48 CDT 2009
2009/8/19 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:
> The isolation of the headphoned music fan is echoed throughout IV.
> Read the last two pages again. Brings the internet into the equation
> again, along with other stuff. Hell, it effectively brings facebook
> in. For better or worse? I'd say it all comes down to how you
> interpret "fog" on a less than literal level.
>
Yes, very possibly a link, though there is some ambiguity. Is it
positive or negative to have found your place in that line of cars
driving through the fog? We're getting waaaaaaaaay ahead of ourselves
here, though.
> The different visual perspectives on LA that are offered in IV all
> seem to have an affective element,
Definitely. The colour and quality of light, plus the weather and how
it affects how people see things, is almost a constant theme.
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