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: I went back to Narita for the birthday of one of the victims of the struggle. The demo was unreal. I had the impression of acting in "Brigadoon." Of waking up 10 years later in the midst of the same players, with the same blue lobsters of police, with the same helmeted adolescents, the same banners, and the same slogan, "Down with the Airport." Only one thing has been added: the airport, precisely.

  • Narrator: If the images of the present don't change, then change the images of the past.