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I Have A Strange Taste In Music, Art, Movies And Other Stuff

Girl walking her dead cat. From Bela Tarr's masterpiece 'Satantango'

I used to enjoy movies more than I do now. Probably because there are not movies like this any more

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SW-User
That was an awesome seen with the cat ..... for me it's weird and harder to explain, there is a lot still to see in great art films, but am drawn more to the low brow stuff, exploitation, the so bad it's good stuff. To see how poor a movie could be, but in a strangely good way that can cause pleasure ie: laughter, and a particular style per director .... but to also then come back to purer forms, imagining it like seeing them for the first time, getting to see an unseen as of yet from the names you can trust, it looks good perhaps on paper, but then experiencing things that way may not work like that. To have in the back of the mind a few select titles that effected you deeply, to re-see them in the not too distant feature, to see them as if one can surprise onself, and be surprised by them again. Just a bit of a way i think to get over the inexplicable estrangement i feel towards the pure, they seem too precious, and my attention is like a sledgehammer and i don't wanna bludgeon a great work of art by paying attention to it, i need inner refinement first it almost seems.

Today's standards, you know them so much better than me, and if things are as dire as you suggest, i am doubly pleased to keep safely ensconced in the previous decades. ... For instance i've never seen Intolerance and Broken Blossoms yet .....:)
Cierzo · M
@SW-User I have no problem with living in the past decades. I don't care about fads. At some point I will see the new Blade Runner, but it must not be now.
SW-User
@Cierzo To see new things is a risk taking thing, keep happy and patient..... :)
novembermoon · 51-55
This is so unusual. And yes, like you said, it creates a feeling. Very hypnotic. I am really curious about it now.
Bela Tarr is god tier. I meet few who appreciate him.[image]
Cierzo · M
@CopperCicada His films have nothing to do with what we are used to watch. It may take time to enjoy them, but the reward is great
@Cierzo I love watching Bela Tarr. I watch Turin's horse once a year or so. I have never seen Satantango. Can't get a hold of it through the library and it's not something I want to buy.
SW-User
that's incredibly sad
SW-User
@Cierzo taking notes...
Cierzo · M
@SW-User Be prepared for slooooooow movies
SW-User
@Cierzo that's okay, I have a long attention span and actually I find most movies paced irritatingly quickly, with no time to take anything in.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
I'm guessing Satantango is an art film
Cierzo · M
@Jackaloftheazuresand Yes. From the 90s. Back then an art film was not yet a label to try to sell emptiness
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
I've seen his other movie Werckmeister Harmonies, this stuff isn't my style but maybe this one is better, he loves these long walking scenes
Noble · 56-60, M

 
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