NP - wallowing in the banal

[Mark Thibodeau]

Joseph, you haven't gone out to see a movie (in theater I'm guessing) since
GHOST STORY?! The Peter Straub adaptation from the early 1980s?! Is this
true?!

If you want a powerful satire, try The Lobster. It's on Netflix still.
Lanthimos' follow-up, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, was tremendously
something, just not quite sure what.

J

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I don’t quite get what people mean by mawkish. Sentimenatlized sickliness
> is not what I think of with this film maker, but even if his work has some
> of that it still intrigues me because he seems to be interested in the way
> weakness connects to strength, and the whole phenomena of unlikely allies.
>   I have been working on an essay called beautiful monsters, which
> actually is what I thought of in hearing an outline of the Shape of Water
> story. Haven’t gone out for a movie since Ghost Story.( that too may  have
> been mawkish, but I found it also thought provoking.) No close theatres
> here so it will be a trek in a severe cold spell to see it, but I am hoping
> for food for thought on my essay in progress.
>
> Is anyone attempting powerful satire in film? Any suggestions?
>
>   -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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