NP but a movie made by a P lover

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 13 22:01:27 CDT 2012


This evening I saw Alex Ross Perry's second movie The Color Wheel.
I recommend it because the filmmaker's skill & sensibility is interesting.The movie is. 
No spoilers. 
 
This movie was inspired by Mr Perry's love of the work of Philip Roth, he says. 
He was at the screening. He spoke, when asked, of all the ways Roth's novels,
seen mostly as dark comedies, inspired this movie, from misogyny and self-loathing---
he played a major character in the movie not too high in self-esteem, to speak lamely---thru many
other things.(I would say solipsism--narcissism to the nth--- is a key theme, which he, however, did not mention)
 
When I asked about this movie's connection to his first, creatively, he said he saw them
as very alike" using and paying homage to major themes of major writers." He hoped all
his movies could be like that. 
 
We chatted after when I said that a couple key scenes and a major relationship theme were very akin
to some scenes in GR thematically to me. He agreed lightly, i.e. he might argue the meaning of 'akin' but he didn't. 
 
We then chatted about Pynchon, the plist came up----you were mentioned and thanked Dave Monroe---
for introducing him to it, which he was on for most of the Inherent Vice read, at least, he said.
 
Seems that Impolex will be shown and discussed at the Durham Pynchon conference. 
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