Second #4230, 70:30
In Roberto Bolaño’s short story “Days of 1978” (from the collection Last Evenings on Earth) one of the characters, upon hearing the voice of another character, suddenly and frightfully develops an unsettling and inexplicable image in his mind:
It [the voice] conjures up a silent black-and-white film in which, all of a sudden, the characters start shouting incomprehensibly at the top of their voices, while a red line appears in the middle of the screen and begins to widen and spread.
What to make of this? It’s nightmarish, but why? Perhaps it’s because what’s described is difficult to visualize: a line appears in the middle of the screen. Is it a vertical or horizontal line? Let’s imagine that the line is vertical, and that it divides two characters on the screen, and that as the line widens and spreads, it pushes the characters apart from each other.
In Roberto Bolaño’s short story “Days of 1978” (from the collection Last Evenings on Earth) one of the characters, upon hearing the voice of another character, suddenly and frightfully develops an unsettling and inexplicable image in his mind:
It [the voice] conjures up a silent black-and-white film in which, all of a sudden, the characters start shouting incomprehensibly at the top of their voices, while a red line appears in the middle of the screen and begins to widen and spread.
What to make of this? It’s nightmarish, but why? Perhaps it’s because what’s described is difficult to visualize: a line appears in the middle of the screen. Is it a vertical or horizontal line? Let’s imagine that the line is vertical, and that it divides two characters on the screen, and that as the line widens and spreads, it pushes the characters apart from each other.
- 3/14/2012
- by Nicholas Rombes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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