Eyes Wide Shut

[tangomarine]

Oh man, it's been a minute since I was on here. It'll probably be another minute, considering how crowded the next few weeks plan to be, but I am promising myself if no one else that when I have the time I will come and post my Movie Thoughts on here, seeing as the kind of disjointed essays I crank out every time I see something I like are more suited to this platform than Tumblr. (I spend too much time on Tumblr anyway...) To wit: I urgently need to rewatch Eyes Wide Shut, because every so often I will find myself returning to my memory of it to gnaw out the marrow, and this is what rewatches are for. I have also recently read the excellent web novel 1 Over X, so I am primed to think about reprises, dark mirrors, unreality, the question of what separates reality from unreality, the question of who decides what is Real and the sociopolitical factors that give them this power + motivate this decision, the inherent sinister undertones of wealth, people who are slightly too polite and friendly to the point where it becomes unnerving, going in and out of places, not being allowed to go in and out of places...

(Also, once I start posting on DW about movies, I will inevitably have to unveil the oceans of ink I have spilled about every goddamn frame of Whiplash. But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.)