NP If you liked The Recognitions then go see

[Mark Kohut]

What Kiarostrami does, slyly as an artist, is to have his two characters--and the major
structuring of the film is that it is like Linklater's Before Sunrise/Sunset movies (kinds merged
maybe, see it and see), man and a woman talking---and the queston of authenticity comes up--
as it did with our read and must in discussing The Recognitions--and THAT becomes a question of
authenticity in human relations----no spolier here but I think you would be surprised with his way
of embodying that concept--in which it is even said, 'well, we can say we re all just copies from some 
original DNA way back".....
 
And what is "original" and what is a copy in their relationship, all such relationships by art's proper generalizations
is what we watchers are given.

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; "gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com" <gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com> 
Cc: Maria <mguarnaschelli at wwnorton.com> 
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 10:05 PM
Subject: If you liked The Recognitions then go see


Certified Copy. I just did. (I think it was brought up here during
our read).

I have seen a few of Abbas Kiarostrami's movies, wrote about one (still unpublished), am engaged 
with subtleties and IDEAS as with few........ I do think he is a filmmaker who reads deeply and
alludes and works stuff into his films like Shakespeare, Pynchon, others (including filmmakers like Kurosawa and others I
can't think of) do....I think he had an aspect of The Plague and a couple three obvious allusions to Waiting for Godot
in the one I most liked....

And I think he has to know and be playing with The Recognitions in the most interesting ways in this movie, which
is structured around a writer who has written a book elevating art copies to equality with the originals, YET doesn't 
seem to much like art, to say the least........

Maybe more.... 
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