emmanuel_em Italy

scrittura magica, stregante. le parole sembrano lame che affettano le sensazioni, durano pagine e pagine magari, e solo dopo ti accorgi che quello non era un "avvenimento" ma un sentito, una sensazione. ti rimane la sensazione, ti dimentichi del fatto, delle mosse, ti rimane addosso la sensazione di essere stato lì mentre accadeva.
una girandola di personaggi, di ideali ( ..ehehe ) e di passaggi chiave che riportano verità al nostro tempo, alle storie e agli intrecci. verità e dolore con l'intensità del dolce-amaro. splendido.

"Il cinema è la più totalitaria delle arti."

Prima di questo libro non avevo occhi.

" Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All
energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull,
a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood.
Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects
that he could behead a kingdom with one blow.
Cinema is this transforming agent. The body
exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a
dry stalk to support these two insatiable
jewels.

Film confers a kind of spurious eternity.

Each film depends upon all the others and drives
you on to others. Cinema was a novelty, a scientif-
ic toy, until a sufficient body of works had been
amassed, enough to create an intermittent other
world, a powerful, infinite mythology to be dipped
into at will.

Films have an illusion of timelessness fostered
by their regular, indomitable appearance.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The modern East creates the greatest body of films.
Cinema is a new form of an ancient tradition - the
shadow play. Even their theater is an imitation
of it. Born in India or China, the shadow show
was aligned with religious ritual, linked with
celebrations which centered around cremation of the
dead.

It is wrong to assume, as some have done, that
cinema belongs to women. Cinema is created by
men for the consolation of men. " ...