Girls with Knives
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...a tiny detail...
i've noticed it in Van Sant's "Elephant" and i'm sure everyone did.
the kid who takes the gunshot is playing a videogame in his room before the killing. it's a laptop scene where the dude kills people randomly in a "Gerry" like landscape. this is not random i think and it really connects with the beautiful but empty "Gerry" movie. "Gerry" it's a statement like i've never seen in a US film.
i feel (more than i can reason) that he's telling us about the indiscriminate value of life and that somehow that scene reveals the lack of reason about commercial stuff (the way people connect to it) and one cannot avoid thinking that we're building some sort of aesthetically driven society not based on content but on effect.
and sometimes i think if we should not mind (as visual workers with huge influence on kids) about the PURPOSE of all this shit we're doing.
really.