Die Zweite Heimat --- a new an exciting long term challenge
This is the continuation of Edgar Reitz' Heimat series in the sense of giving the story of one person that's in Heimat 1 only later, I've had this for YEARS, and have not finished it yet, it's 24 hours or so, just this part of the trilogy, which also has an added feature I don't have. There are some incredibly cringey things in here, like the idolization of art, making many who would hypothetically check it out would say it's pretentious, and i'd agree there's some of that in this sprawling work, but there are also epiphanies, with characters you spend so much time with.
So before I make another post about a film, or even any kind of post, I will have to have completed this behemoth, and if I do, then i'd rather just then watch Heimat 3, that's much shorter, and while not as critically acclaimed is covering an interesting time, when the wall came a tumbling down.
So not till I've completed parts 2 and 3 of this trilogy will I post my own posts, I may answer some things, because there's a phenomenon I can't explain to my satisfaction, but a modicum of distraction is appreciated most warmly, and yet brief, oh so like a wisp of smoke disappearing into the midnight air.
1. The Time of the First Songs -- Rilke nod is like baptizing the Artist's Artist, art is going to be like looking into the mirror in this whole 13 movie series, it's to me an awkward performance at times. //// As I type I think I saw Alexander Kluge, I have a complete works of his from Edition filmuseum. /// scene with landlady singing is the first highlight for me, wow!! /// Thomas Mann nod, I make note of what I might care to read. Rilke and Mann are very good, and fine upper crust kinds, making it's appreciators feel all special inside. /// One thing I find awkward is the eyes of Hermann the main character, they dart around zig zaggy in a playful way and it translates to me as don't take a serious scenario seriously because of how this guy looks looking all around like that. /// Imagine an HBO in Germany, this is what one of their shows would be. //// was this actor chosen because he was a musician? That would explain things. /// depiction of modern classical is the kind that is for the folk who think highly of John Cage's work where he just sits at a piano doing nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. THAT isn't what art films should be about normally, they ought to be either abstract with no narrative, or fully enveloping a story. //// Back to the HBO analogy, this is way above anything the real HBO aired, imho //// a rousing applause for a piece of trash, things get more dramatically charged later on though. //// anti-jazz rant another cringey moment. When jazz can be incorporated in classical I find that a refreshing thing, not a "village idiot" thing like full of himself Hermann believes.
2. Two Strange Eyes
So before I make another post about a film, or even any kind of post, I will have to have completed this behemoth, and if I do, then i'd rather just then watch Heimat 3, that's much shorter, and while not as critically acclaimed is covering an interesting time, when the wall came a tumbling down.
So not till I've completed parts 2 and 3 of this trilogy will I post my own posts, I may answer some things, because there's a phenomenon I can't explain to my satisfaction, but a modicum of distraction is appreciated most warmly, and yet brief, oh so like a wisp of smoke disappearing into the midnight air.
1. The Time of the First Songs -- Rilke nod is like baptizing the Artist's Artist, art is going to be like looking into the mirror in this whole 13 movie series, it's to me an awkward performance at times. //// As I type I think I saw Alexander Kluge, I have a complete works of his from Edition filmuseum. /// scene with landlady singing is the first highlight for me, wow!! /// Thomas Mann nod, I make note of what I might care to read. Rilke and Mann are very good, and fine upper crust kinds, making it's appreciators feel all special inside. /// One thing I find awkward is the eyes of Hermann the main character, they dart around zig zaggy in a playful way and it translates to me as don't take a serious scenario seriously because of how this guy looks looking all around like that. /// Imagine an HBO in Germany, this is what one of their shows would be. //// was this actor chosen because he was a musician? That would explain things. /// depiction of modern classical is the kind that is for the folk who think highly of John Cage's work where he just sits at a piano doing nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. THAT isn't what art films should be about normally, they ought to be either abstract with no narrative, or fully enveloping a story. //// Back to the HBO analogy, this is way above anything the real HBO aired, imho //// a rousing applause for a piece of trash, things get more dramatically charged later on though. //// anti-jazz rant another cringey moment. When jazz can be incorporated in classical I find that a refreshing thing, not a "village idiot" thing like full of himself Hermann believes.
2. Two Strange Eyes
46-50, M