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Sep. 17th, 2015 12:55 amI promised not to write about It Follows tonight.
Will soon though.
And its self-conscious use of precursors, including the slasher tradition high points (maybe a relative term) of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and Halloween; the J-Horror tradition, esp. Cure and The Ring, less esp. Grudge, and middlingly esp. Pulse; and its less self-conscious reflection of the non-tradition, unless major awesomeness is a tradition, of Blue Velvet, Ghost World and Upstream Color. Well, the Lynch is probably conscious but anxious, Ghost World is almost certainly un-. Upstream Color, a great answer to it, it may instead feel it's answering - couldn't quite tell.
It's also a rejoinder to Cabin in the Woods, a possibly entirely independent analogue of The Counsellor, and a surely independent companion piece to Interstellar.
Closest to Cure and Ghost World, of all those, and very much knows it about Cure. That swimming pool building, eesh. Closest among movies, anyway; the choices of Prufrock and The Idiot are off-path enough that I don't think it's very aware of its own ultimate literary sources - all that must come indirectly. There's a couple Miss Lonelyhearts convergences that may even be coincidences, though I'm approaching pure disbelief in those where genre tropes are concerned. "Genre," I should say, though I'll not get into that now as that would be breaking the promise I'm denying I've broken.
Will soon though.
And its self-conscious use of precursors, including the slasher tradition high points (maybe a relative term) of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and Halloween; the J-Horror tradition, esp. Cure and The Ring, less esp. Grudge, and middlingly esp. Pulse; and its less self-conscious reflection of the non-tradition, unless major awesomeness is a tradition, of Blue Velvet, Ghost World and Upstream Color. Well, the Lynch is probably conscious but anxious, Ghost World is almost certainly un-. Upstream Color, a great answer to it, it may instead feel it's answering - couldn't quite tell.
It's also a rejoinder to Cabin in the Woods, a possibly entirely independent analogue of The Counsellor, and a surely independent companion piece to Interstellar.
Closest to Cure and Ghost World, of all those, and very much knows it about Cure. That swimming pool building, eesh. Closest among movies, anyway; the choices of Prufrock and The Idiot are off-path enough that I don't think it's very aware of its own ultimate literary sources - all that must come indirectly. There's a couple Miss Lonelyhearts convergences that may even be coincidences, though I'm approaching pure disbelief in those where genre tropes are concerned. "Genre," I should say, though I'll not get into that now as that would be breaking the promise I'm denying I've broken.
