I watched Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960(?)
film _La Notte_ again last week (in the
privacy of my own home, on DVD, not in
a epidemiological hot spot AKA theater).

This was one of the "new realism" films, I
believe.  But Antonioni manages to
use partial reflectivity of glass walls,
where you both see thru the glass and see
things reflected in the glass so that there
appear to be rooms where they are not....
Antonioni manages to pull off one of these
trompe l'oeils that I could not figure out,
despite giving it some effort.

Antionioni said:

    "Every day we live an adventure, ideological or
    sentimental. Our drama is non-communication and
    it is this feeling that dominates the characters
    in my film, which I preferred to set in a rich
    environment because feelings there are not
    dependent on material circumstances."

So, in our new empiricism (the rule of the Iron Fist,
as I call it...), we will less and less be able to
know who man is, but only what material circumstances
can do to him.  Maybe we will son study
economics on the planets Mercury and Venus (which are, I
believe, uninhabited)?

Cheers!

\brad mccormick



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http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/kic/~akitaoka/index-e.html

the web site for those who want more.


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From: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:38 AM
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http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/t2_03.jpg

Look at this long enough and everything begins to make sense.

(You begin to connect the dots?)


--
  Let your light so shine before men,
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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