I went a second time to watch Astroid City with our youngest. When Scarlett’s character gets photographed holding the script and it’s mirrored by the alien picture on the dry line something clicked for me. Art is an otherworldly visitation that’s not easily understood or explained. The play doesn’t make sense to the people in it. The visit from the alien either. But the pictures always ‘turn out’. They render ideas and space for sleepwalking through ideas. And that has to be the point some times. If we’re going to have our reduced scripted lesson plans disrupted (as the teacher does) we must enter dramas that are frustratingly unreducable. A risky 'take' for the comments of Untaking. Lol
I love this! And yes, the second time I saw it (took the wife and eldest child) I thought there must be something in the juxtaposition of those photos. This reading really works for me. Thanks so much!
Thanks for reading the WRB!
Oh I look forward to it each week!
I went a second time to watch Astroid City with our youngest. When Scarlett’s character gets photographed holding the script and it’s mirrored by the alien picture on the dry line something clicked for me. Art is an otherworldly visitation that’s not easily understood or explained. The play doesn’t make sense to the people in it. The visit from the alien either. But the pictures always ‘turn out’. They render ideas and space for sleepwalking through ideas. And that has to be the point some times. If we’re going to have our reduced scripted lesson plans disrupted (as the teacher does) we must enter dramas that are frustratingly unreducable. A risky 'take' for the comments of Untaking. Lol
I love this! And yes, the second time I saw it (took the wife and eldest child) I thought there must be something in the juxtaposition of those photos. This reading really works for me. Thanks so much!