Movie of Recognitions called "Certified Copy"

[Edward A Moore]

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Certified Copy

2010

Abbas Kirostami

English, French, and Italian

Of all the dense, intertwined ironies in William Gaddis’s novel The
Recognitions (some of which may not be ironies at all, but actual
truth), the slyest but also least reticent comes out in a conversation
between a young painter, Wyatt Gwyon, and the sinister art dealer
Recktall Brown. “It’s a question of being surrounded by people who
don’t have any sense that what they are doing means anything… If
everybody else’s life is interchanged and nobody can stop and say,
That is mine, this is my work, then how can they see it in mine,”
Wyatt asks. The irony is that Wyatt is exclusively a forger, an
incredibly talented one, mostly of Flemish masterpieces. His method,
handed down to him, is to reject any semblance of originality – “The
romantic disease” – and perfect the forms of the masters through
repetition. »


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