Because I know that time is always time, and place is always place and just...

Sigrid 2022-12-18 23:46:35

Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place

place—— TSEloit 's genius





in making the subway ride into (everyone's) watching a (inner) movie. The images and sound effects in between have the shadow of "Stalker".




Might as well put a few more lines Elliott here



or like a subway train, in the tunnels, too long from station to station The chatter of the
travelers rises and fades into silence,
and you're in each Behind the face, the emptiness of the heart is deepening
, leaving only the fear that there is nothing to think about;
- "Four Quartets, East Cork"





When the train starts, the passengers settle down and
start to taste the fruit and flip through the pages. Books and official correspondence
(the people who had come to see them off also left the platform), their faces stretched from grief to
relief with the sleepy rhythm of the long hours . Travelers, move forward! This is not an escape from the past to a different life, nor to any future; you are not the crowd who just left that station, nor the people who are about to reach the end,… - Four Quartets, Dry Salvage This director is a great man, and he loves cats, Japan, and Tarkovsky. His "A Day in the Life of Tarkovsky" is the best Tarkovsky documentary I've ever seen. Hitchcock's Vertigo, Chris Marks watched 19 times. I have always wondered, why a director (second-rate commercial film) has been sought after by the masters of the French new wave, and has almost become a god?
















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  • Narrator: As for the students, some massacred each other in the mountains in the name of revolutionary purity, while others had studied capitalism so thoroughly to fight it that they now provide it with its best executives.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said that for him that it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images. But, it never worked. He wrote me, "One day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader. If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black."