Comments on: Film Peeve http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/03/14/film-peeve/ Let's all drink to the death of a clown Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ken http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/03/14/film-peeve/#comment-103 ken Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:29:13 +0000 http://phineas.kimbo.org/?p=430#comment-103 Yep-- that's an annoying cliche alright. It's so much better when time and perspective shifts in film are, if anything, under-explained rather than over-explained. Many of the best things I've seen recently sustain (in different ways) that delicious sense of uncertainty or ambiguity about questions of the time frame or order of events, or even what we are to think is real vs. memory, fantasy, illusion, etc. In my favorite films these issues tend to be permanently unresolvable, suspended tensions. On another note, love it when you post a whole thought here. It's nice to have something to think about. Yep– that’s an annoying cliche alright.

It’s so much better when time and perspective shifts in film are, if anything, under-explained rather than over-explained. Many of the best things I’ve seen recently sustain (in different ways) that delicious sense of uncertainty or ambiguity about questions of the time frame or order of events, or even what we are to think is real vs. memory, fantasy, illusion, etc. In my favorite films these issues tend to be permanently unresolvable, suspended tensions.

On another note, love it when you post a whole thought here.

It’s nice to have something to think about.

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