NP - wallowing in the banal
David Elliott
ellidavd at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 29 08:07:24 CST 2017
Which film is banal and/or mawkish? Were you referring to the new Guillermo del Toro flick?
My apologies for getting lost. I have an easier time following Pynchon than some of these threads.
On Friday, December 29, 2017 7:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
My schoolboy-like self-education left this mawkish old man with this: Any sentiment in art, if earned by the characters in their interactive plot, is OK; if unearned, we call it sentimental rightfully.
To me, real sentiment is much harder to earn in most movies: not enough time for real feelings, only the signaling of feelings.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
I've actually seen The Square twice. Brilliant! I wouldn't go near the Shape of Water. Even a hint of mawkishness is more than I can bear.
On Dec 26, 2017 1:35 PM, "Charles Albert" <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
The Shape of Water.......Sally Hawkins...
The script isn't at all original, and it frequently veers to the mawkish, but
It is visually stunning....a great deal of Teal....the collection of late 1950s autos, but particularly the bus (looks like it came out of the Sunbeam collection). A lot of pop rivets.....kinda homely, but I really want one.
and Sally Hawkins.....as a mute..... near impossibly expressive eyes which dominate a face which at first may look plain, but within 3 minutes becomes literally unbearably beautiful...There is a scene with Richard Jenkins wherein she tries to recruit him into the enterprise - if you aren't crying, you are a zombie.
love,
cfa
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