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Guido 2023-09-12 13:07:34
Scenery of small Texas town accompanied by country music. There is still...
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Chesley 2023-08-15 12:05:45
Genius artist! It can be seen from the stop making sense. Although his job is not a director, this film has also been made into a music MV-style film, but from various art forms: fashion, jazz, auction performances, ancient advertising films , all showing the tolerance and genius-like creativity of Byrne, an art student, for different arts! Other highlights: the observation of the town and the obvious mapping on the dining table, the composition, the choreography of the narration, the byrne in...
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Amelie 2023-08-04 15:20:58
A glimpse of light, between Godard and...
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Amiya 2023-06-10 07:14:50
There are some highlights in the style, but the overall is...
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Fanny 2023-06-02 04:43:52
The Texas town style painting, the jumping color scheme depicts an "unreal" Texas, in sharp contrast with the lifeless box buildings, large shopping malls, and factories on the vast land. It bluntly exposes the reality of modern people being swallowed by consumerism. Can you find true love by calling the hotline while lying down and watching TV? The form of the narration pseudo-documentary and the carnival celebration are reminiscent of Fellini's Amakod, and David Byrne is a storyteller who...
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Hayden 2023-05-31 14:04:30
Poor English listening can really reduce the experience of watching movies. The style is very funny The laugh is so cold that I don't know if I should laugh inexplicably I feel a little loneliness from every cute and special...
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Malachi 2023-05-24 03:42:07
A must-see for Talking Heads and David Byrne fans, it’s so cute, like an extended version of the soundtrack MV (it’s...
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Alta 2023-05-04 00:28:08
In a small Texas town, people work in an electronics factory during the day, mix in bars at night, and go shopping to churches on weekends. They will usher in a state-building celebration. The film uses several typical characters and scenes to show the state of the small town, especially the latter is impressive. The fashion show in the mall puts the small town (human life) on the body, and the church sermon is not about God but about politics and conspiracy. The style expresses reality in an...
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Camylle 2023-02-05 10:20:27
For European intellectuals, the United States is characterized by deserts, and Hollywood and Disneyland are the seductive use of deserts. The MV movie "True Stories" appropriates this stereotype. Texas is a peculiar Space: For the history of western/highway and other American specific genres and the acceleration of capitalism into absurd comedy, at the same time, it is very similar to Roy Anderson's version of American Pop, with the speed of the machine replacing the speed of the human in the...
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Edwin 2023-01-29 04:53:35
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Kyleigh 2022-10-06 13:56:50
"Film Review" Interview: David Byrne [Translation]
Author: Margaret Barton-Fumo (Film Comment)
Translator: csh
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Earl Culver: Here's a field... take a look out. Picture a house... Picture a lot of houses. What else is a field good for but building houses?
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Earl Culver: Let me show you what I think is going on...
Linda Culver: Do you hear music?
Narrator: [to Larry, sotto voce] Is there something wrong with your sister?
Earl Culver: Main... frame! Micro-processor! Semi-conductor!
Linda Culver: All right, Daddy!
Larry Culver: [simultaneously with Linda] All right, Dad!
Earl Culver: Now. If this is the town... and here is the workplace...
[starts arranging the food ont he table to make a map]
Earl Culver: with its goods... and distribution network... Now, most middle-class people have worked for large corporations, like VeriCorp. Or for the government itself. But now, all that's starting to change. Scientists and engineers are moving off from those large corporations like VeriCorp, and they're beginning to start their own companies, marketing new inventions.
Narrator: Excuse me, Mister Culver... I forgot what these peppers represent.
Earl Culver: A-ha! It all spins back to the middle! Here we are right here, in Virgil. Our way of doing business has been based on the past! That's why we have to keep these guys in Virgil, even though they DO leave VeriCorp. For the time being, it's created confusion! And chaos! They don't work for money anymore, but to earn a place in Heaven, which is a big motivating factor once upon a time, believe you me. They're working and inventing because they like it! Economics is become a spiritual thing. I must admit it frightens me a bit; they don't seem to see the difference between working, and not working. It's all become a part of one's life. Larry! Linda! There's no concept of weekends anymore!
