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I fell madly and deeply in love with Shock Corridor (1963). It is campy and melodramatic, but they both work to create a compelling and sometimes frightening portrait of price of success (among other things...). The scenes with Brent, the African American who believes himself to be a white supremacist, and a member of the KKK are among the most disturbing things I've seen on film. Far removed (not as far as we think perhaps) from the racia tension of the civil rights movement, the scenes are intense and heavily charged with anger and confusion. I don't see myself forgetting them anytime soon. Mixing in some very wonderful/strange colour dream sequences and one of the coolest hallucinations committed to screen, I think this will be a favourite for a long time.
My mind has offically been blown by Whisper of the Heart. Life affirming and tenderly beautiful. *sigh*
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*shrug* It's not very funny.
Still, there is something oddly transportive about it, and compared to what passes for modern family entertainment, it's pretty much alien. It's terribly charming, but it doesn't leave much of an impression. The Reverse Shot piece on it did open my eyes a bit to its more thoughtful qualities though.
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Love the new thread title, Rowland - I actually had to do a double take, because I wondered why a discussion of Y tu mama tambien was chosen as the first thread topic :D
Wow. This really is a good piece.
Out of curiosity, how do you generally feel about other Melendez-helmed Peanuts specials/films/whatever? Specifically, A Charlie Brown Christmas? I'll admit, of course, to not laughing out loud throughout these things, but my experience with the best of these is sublime, almost transcendental.
I, of course, have nothing near a spiritual experience watching Garfield's Christmas Special or whatever the hell it's called.
Don't you find the ultimate statement, in the characters' extreme optimism a little chilling? Like the adult in you wants to cry tears of mourning for how this all is, like, not going to work out the way they think it will?
It's a glorious moment, one of the best in one of the best films, but that's what I love so much about it.
It's been available in America now for the better part of a year, which is when I initially bought and watched it. My local film society's Westerns of the World program actually plugged it in in place of a Greek western they couldn't obtain in time. Seeing it in a theater, even if it was just a projected DVD rocked pretty hard. The film's a blast.