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WILDLIKE (2014 movie)
Will this be the year someone vids Wildlike, soft hurt/comfort movie of my heart??
Summary: In Alaska, a neglected young woman runs away from the family member she’s visiting and forms an unlikely connection with a gruff older backpacker. Features gorgeous open landscapes from Juneau to Denali. Starring Ella Purnell, who played young Maleficent, and personal fave Bruce Greenwood, who played Christopher Pike in the Star Trek: Reboot movies and has been in lots of other stuff.
Caveats: Molestation of high school-aged girl by uncle; mention of spousal death from cancer.
Vid request: I would be so happy to have a vid of this movie that simply told the story, focusing on Mackenzie and René's developing relationship and taking advantage of the visual splendor of the Alaskan setting. Or whatever focus and structure appeals to you. FWIW, the emotional high point of the movie for me was René's protectiveness once he found out what really happened with Kenzie and her uncle, specifically when René bundled her back into the ferry cabin. I like to think he made good use of the bear spray when he made that stop in Juneau. :)
DOG and ANIMAL SHOWS (The Dog House UK, The Wizard of Paws, Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, Critter Fixers: Country Vets)
Sales pitch: Animal feelinnngggs. Human/animal affection. Dogs, cats, etc.
Blanket/umbrella vid request: So I would love a vid that uses any or all of the above to wallow in the good feelings that come from loving and bonding with and caring for pets. If you want to expand to include a favorite show of your own, that’d be cool. I also have enjoyed Festivids-eligible things like Dog: Impossible (TV/Disney+), Dogs (TV/Netflix) and Cat Daddies (movie/Kanopy).
Summaries: The Dog House UK: Staff at a rescue matchmake dogs with potential owners. The people and the pups meet in an outdoor area and see if they’re a good fit. In the U.S., three 10-episode seasons streaming on HBO/Max.
The Wizard of Paws: A man who used to make prosthetic limbs and braces for people now makes them custom for animals. Each episode features one or two animals getting fitted and learning to use the assistive device. These include not only cats and dogs but also a sheep, a goat, and a duck. Very sweet. Two not-long-enough seasons streaming on Disney+.
Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog: The “dog whisperer” returns to provide advice at his fancy ranch. Some of the people really need therapy instead of dog training, but here we are. Streaming on HBO/Max and Hulu.
Critter Fixers: Country Vets: Two Black American veterinarians, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson, run a private practice in rural Georgia where they and their staff see cats, dogs, and “exotics” and make farm calls. Hodges and Ferguson have a great straight man/funny man dynamic. Three or four seasons on Disney+ and… Hulu? or HBO/Max.
Caveats: The Dog House UK: There are some sad stories about why people give up their pets to the rescue.
The Wizard of Paws: Pets and farm animals with limb differences and limb injuries. Most are happy. Once or twice, an animal dies offscreen.
Better Human Better Dog: Cesar’s training methods sometimes veer into victim- (owner-)blaming.
Critter Fixers: An unpredictable amount of animal illness, injury, and/or death in each episode. Surgery and other medical procedures intended to treat animals. Occasional use of parent/child language to describe humans and animals. Occasional discussion of animal weight, diet, and weight loss. In one episode there's insensitive parading around of an animal, I think a dog, that has male and female reproductive organs.
Specific vid requests: If the above doesn’t appeal to you, here are some other thoughts.
- The Dog House UK: People bonding with dogs, plz. There’s room for suspense when matches don’t work out right away or when people try out multiple candidates or individual dogs keep getting not chosen.
- The Wizard of Paws: Anything that revels in the joy and aid that Derrick brings to his work and those he helps, both furry and human. Maybe something about the tech of it, his mastery in a niche field.
- Better Human Better Dog: Other than bonding, hm. Something about improvement, maybe? A humor vid about the humans needing therapy? lol, Yo Gabba Gabba has that song “Don’t bite your friends.”
- Critter Fixers: Care of so-called exotic animals <3 <3 <3. Also, there’s this song I heard at the end of a documentary, “I Love My Dog” by Cat Stevens, which is simple but very cute and could be fun as a way to look at the vet care and the affection between the two docs (and their team).
THE ENGLISH (2022 TV)
Summary: A BBC/Amazon revisionist Western miniseries about an Englishwoman (Emily Blunt) who goes to the “frontier” to avenge a wrong that isn’t detailed until later; a Pawnee man (Chaske Spencer) who’s retiring as a U.S. Army scout and looking for some land to live in peace on; a bunch of white people being either naïve or brutal; scattershot Native people in all kinds of different situations; and [disease redacted]. Notable actors include Rafe Spall, Ciaran Hinds and Gary Farmer. Six episodes streaming on Prime.
Caveats: Pretty much everything bad that can happen to a woman happens to a woman. Massacre of a Native American village. Offscreen death of a child. Disfigurement. Racist and misogynist language and behavior. Gun violence, obviously. Probably other stuff I’m forgetting.
Vid request: I’m super ambivalent about this show. It’s a bleak tale full of loss and violence, the sort of grimdark that’s still fashionable in prestige television. While it critiques the traditional Western, it’s still a story told from the point of view of white people, and shouldn’t we be more varied than that by now? Shouldn’t we be beyond ‘oh wow, the Native characters are sympathetic and, like, almost fully realized, and the conquest of the west was bad’? But then, it says what it is in the title, and it’s probably more to do with the director wrestling with English media (or actual) history than anything else. I almost quit watching several times, but it kept pulling me back.
ANYWAY. I have this incredibly specific vid idea. It’s set to Agnes Obel’s cover of the English folk song “Katie Cruel”. It would be a haunting, brooding look at Cornelia’s search for her heart’s desire, as that desire evolves. It could also tie in Eli’s similarly shifting search for who he is and what he wants. And/or it could be about the several women on the show struggling with [redacted again] and all the other crap they’re forced to deal with.
If that doesn’t speak to you, then feel free to vid as you desire. If it’s helpful, I like Chaske Spencer and would be pleased with a character study of Eli, if there’s enough there to support a vid. Something that questions and critiques the approach the show takes. A straightforward telling of Cornelia’s story. Maybe a spiral down into men’s ‘heart of darkness.’ Would prefer that it not focus on Melmont.
ATLANTA (TV)
Sales pitch: Disaster friends, social commentary, sharp writing, black humor, Black humor, random one-off episodes that dive into the frightening and/or absurd. Main plot: A guy in Atlanta hits it big as a rapper, and his cousin becomes his manager while negotiating a rocky relationship and trying to co-parent. Starring: Donald Glover! Brian Tyree Henry! Lakeith Stanfield! Zazie Beetz! Celeb cameos! Four seasons streaming on Hulu.
Here's a cool video analyzing what the narrator calls the show’s Afrosurrealism.
Caveats: Content can be disturbing, usually in relation to confronting anti-Black racism in many forms. Also off the top of my head: drug use, gun violence, physical violence, suicide.
Vid request: This show is so good! Yet there are all of 10 fanworks for it on the AO3 and none of them are vids?? So, first off, A VID would be most welcome!
Ideas:
- A recruiter vid that gives a flavor of the characters and their main arc(s).
- A deeper dive into Paper Boi’s life, or Earn’s or Van‘s or Darius’.
- A taste of the way the show veers into the supernatural and/or political thought experiments and/or specific media spoofs.
- A focus on one of the standalone episodes, whether about the main characters (Paper Boi’s journey into the heart of darkness or new jazz? The Teddy Perkins/Michael Jackson or Mr. Chocolate nightmares? Van’s double life as a French baguette-wielding black market dealer?) or anthology standalones (the kid who gets sent into foster care, the ancestral slaveholder’s tax, the affirmative action donor, the homegoing service…).
- Something that manages to capture the humor of the series even though so much of it lies in the dialogue.
- Themes like "being lost" can help make connections.
I look forward to whatever you come up with!
THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI (book)
Sales pitch: A woman made of clay meets a man made of fire in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. There's challah baking and desert flashbacks and sexy seduction and supernatural possession, and, just in time for Purim, evil viziers. Beautiful, comforting prose.
Caveats: I don't remember well enough, sorry. :(
Vid request: One of the things I loved about this book was its vibrant setting, its creation of an atmosphere I wanted to wrap around myself forever. I think what I'm hoping for in a vid is a sort of mood piece, where you feel like you're in this magical 1900-ish Lower East Side or Central Park, sepia toned. (The closest movie I can think of for visual inspiration of the city is Gangs of New York, but I'm sure there's lots more out there I just haven't seen. Maybe Winter's Tale, which held the same sort of early-NY magic?)
And maybe you will give an impression of this large-boned Eastern European woman and this elegant Arab man (I mean, I don't expect our imaginations of Chava and Ahmad to be the same, so I look forward to whomever you choose for your fan-cast, if you fan-cast them). Maybe there will be a bakery and a metalworker's forge, or a desert and a temple, or Jewish and Syrian immigrant communities, or impressions of seduction or murder or enslavement or the clash between subservience/suppression and dominance/recklessness, or maybe there are other aspects of the story you want to highlight, or nothing so complex because it all seems very intimidating. Whatever you make, it's going to be wonderful.
I just ask that you please be sensitive if you choose to cast Schaalman or Schall. No Hollywood stereotypes of giant-eyebrowed, pointy-eared, scheming Jews. Thank you. <3
SAVE YOURSELVES! (2020 movie)
Summary: A progressive millennial Brooklyn couple decide to do a digital detox at their friend’s isolated cabin in upstate NY... so they don’t know aliens have invaded Earth that same day. A charming comedy that’s mainly a rumination on the benefits and detriments of modern communication—addiction, connectedness, disconnectedness, the formation of metaphorical and literal bubbles, how instant access to information can stunt learning. Streaming on Kanopy and I think Hulu.
Caveats: Alcohol and maybe weed. A substance that has a hallucinogenic effect. A few onscreen murders. An orphaned baby. Mention of alien apocalypse and people dying.
Vid request: I just watched this the other week and had a good time. If you can capture the charm of the characters (especially Su) and their relationship, the kookiness of the pouf aliens, and/or the communication theme, that’d be fun. I appreciate your taking on the challenge, given how much of the story happens in the dialogue!
TÁR (2022 movie)
Summary: Downfall of a conductor (Cate Blanchett) at her peak. Or: an uncanny horror film masquerading as an examination of gender and cancel culture.
Caveats: Bullying and (possible) predatory sexual behavior toward students. Discussion of a character’s suicide. Theft of, and gaslighting about, a partner’s medication. Confusion about what’s real.
***CONTAINS SPOILERS***
Vid request: I watched this movie and was impressed with the patience and attention it demands from its viewers, plus the echoes of Black Swan in its early hints at neurosis and intensifying questioning of its protagonist’s sanity as a major performance approaches. Reviewer debates about who was “right” when it came to power dynamics, inclusivity vs. political correctness, and cancel culture were less interesting to me. Then a fandom friend mentioned “the ghost,” and I said what?, and two hours of internet rabbit hole later, I became extra SUPER DUPER impressed by everything that was happening just under the surface.
The ties between the spirits and cleansing Lydia (supposedly) studied among the Shipibo-Konibo and the ghost of Krista and the labyrinth of her own mind. The rampant symbolism, including mirrors, Lydia’s injuries, the heart, the kené, the number 5, the evolving color palette. The embodiment of Lydia’s fear of ignominy and mortality in her elderly neighbor. The creepiness suffused through the entire tale.
At what point does reality fracture? When she pursues Olga into the basement/underworld? When she’s “banished” to a jumbled-up version of Southeast Asia to conduct video game music? When she hides in the bathroom and tackles her conductor frenemy? What about from the very beginning? Was Linda ever actually Lydia, or are we viewing Linda’s greatest dreams and greatest fears ? (We’re asked to believe from the first scene, the interview, that someone could be this absurdly extraordinary. Sure. But maybe that suspension of disbelief is a meta point, and we shouldn’t suspend it.) (I’m among those who believe that the mishmash of Philippines/Thailand/etc. at the end isn’t a result of the director’s racist ignorance but a depiction of Lydia’s; she hasn’t been there and doesn’t know about it and makes stereotyped assumptions about its people and substance and value in her world. It’s still racist, only it's Lydia's racism, and I think the filmmakers count on us to recognize something is wrong and use that to interpret what is or isn't happening.) We never see the elderly neighbor’s face; could she actually be Lydia? Did she dream the scream in the woods? What are we to make of the spectral figures, the metronome, the odd cuts that imply lost time? So much to explore.
I would love a vid that touched on any and all of the above. Something that stitches together all the visual and thematic resonances to tell this story not at face value but as a rich text, a mood, a question.
Music-wise, my favorite genres are folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... If you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.
Thank you!!
festivids. WILDLIKE (2014 movie)
Will this be the year someone vids Wildlike, soft hurt/comfort movie of my heart??
Summary: In Alaska, a neglected young woman runs away from the family member she’s visiting and forms an unlikely connection with a gruff older backpacker. Features gorgeous open landscapes from Juneau to Denali. Starring Ella Purnell, who played young Maleficent, and personal fave Bruce Greenwood, who played Christopher Pike in the Star Trek: Reboot movies and has been in lots of other stuff.
Caveats: Molestation of high school-aged girl by uncle; mention of spousal death from cancer.
Vid request: I would be so happy to have a vid of this movie that simply told the story, focusing on Mackenzie and René's developing relationship and taking advantage of the visual splendor of the Alaskan setting. Or whatever focus and structure appeals to you. FWIW, the emotional high point of the movie for me was René's protectiveness once he found out what really happened with Kenzie and her uncle, specifically when René bundled her back into the ferry cabin. I like to think he made good use of the bear spray when he made that stop in Juneau. :)
DOG and ANIMAL SHOWS (The Dog House UK, The Wizard of Paws, Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, Critter Fixers: Country Vets)
Sales pitch: Animal feelinnngggs. Human/animal affection. Dogs, cats, etc.
Blanket/umbrella vid request: So I would love a vid that uses any or all of the above to wallow in the good feelings that come from loving and bonding with and caring for pets. If you want to expand to include a favorite show of your own, that’d be cool. I also have enjoyed Festivids-eligible things like Dog: Impossible (TV/Disney+), Dogs (TV/Netflix) and Cat Daddies (movie/Kanopy).
Summaries: The Dog House UK: Staff at a rescue matchmake dogs with potential owners. The people and the pups meet in an outdoor area and see if they’re a good fit. In the U.S., three 10-episode seasons streaming on HBO/Max.
The Wizard of Paws: A man who used to make prosthetic limbs and braces for people now makes them custom for animals. Each episode features one or two animals getting fitted and learning to use the assistive device. These include not only cats and dogs but also a sheep, a goat, and a duck. Very sweet. Two not-long-enough seasons streaming on Disney+.
Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog: The “dog whisperer” returns to provide advice at his fancy ranch. Some of the people really need therapy instead of dog training, but here we are. Streaming on HBO/Max and Hulu.
Critter Fixers: Country Vets: Two Black American veterinarians, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson, run a private practice in rural Georgia where they and their staff see cats, dogs, and “exotics” and make farm calls. Hodges and Ferguson have a great straight man/funny man dynamic. Three or four seasons on Disney+ and… Hulu? or HBO/Max.
Caveats: The Dog House UK: There are some sad stories about why people give up their pets to the rescue.
The Wizard of Paws: Pets and farm animals with limb differences and limb injuries. Most are happy. Once or twice, an animal dies offscreen.
Better Human Better Dog: Cesar’s training methods sometimes veer into victim- (owner-)blaming.
Critter Fixers: An unpredictable amount of animal illness, injury, and/or death in each episode. Surgery and other medical procedures intended to treat animals. Occasional use of parent/child language to describe humans and animals. Occasional discussion of animal weight, diet, and weight loss. In one episode there's insensitive parading around of an animal, I think a dog, that has male and female reproductive organs.
Specific vid requests: If the above doesn’t appeal to you, here are some other thoughts.
- The Dog House UK: People bonding with dogs, plz. There’s room for suspense when matches don’t work out right away or when people try out multiple candidates or individual dogs keep getting not chosen.
- The Wizard of Paws: Anything that revels in the joy and aid that Derrick brings to his work and those he helps, both furry and human. Maybe something about the tech of it, his mastery in a niche field.
- Better Human Better Dog: Other than bonding, hm. Something about improvement, maybe? A humor vid about the humans needing therapy? lol, Yo Gabba Gabba has that song “Don’t bite your friends.”
- Critter Fixers: Care of so-called exotic animals <3 <3 <3. Also, there’s this song I heard at the end of a documentary, “I Love My Dog” by Cat Stevens, which is simple but very cute and could be fun as a way to look at the vet care and the affection between the two docs (and their team).
THE ENGLISH (2022 TV)
Summary: A BBC/Amazon revisionist Western miniseries about an Englishwoman (Emily Blunt) who goes to the “frontier” to avenge a wrong that isn’t detailed until later; a Pawnee man (Chaske Spencer) who’s retiring as a U.S. Army scout and looking for some land to live in peace on; a bunch of white people being either naïve or brutal; scattershot Native people in all kinds of different situations; and [disease redacted]. Notable actors include Rafe Spall, Ciaran Hinds and Gary Farmer. Six episodes streaming on Prime.
Caveats: Pretty much everything bad that can happen to a woman happens to a woman. Massacre of a Native American village. Offscreen death of a child. Disfigurement. Racist and misogynist language and behavior. Gun violence, obviously. Probably other stuff I’m forgetting.
Vid request: I’m super ambivalent about this show. It’s a bleak tale full of loss and violence, the sort of grimdark that’s still fashionable in prestige television. While it critiques the traditional Western, it’s still a story told from the point of view of white people, and shouldn’t we be more varied than that by now? Shouldn’t we be beyond ‘oh wow, the Native characters are sympathetic and, like, almost fully realized, and the conquest of the west was bad’? But then, it says what it is in the title, and it’s probably more to do with the director wrestling with English media (or actual) history than anything else. I almost quit watching several times, but it kept pulling me back.
ANYWAY. I have this incredibly specific vid idea. It’s set to Agnes Obel’s cover of the English folk song “Katie Cruel”. It would be a haunting, brooding look at Cornelia’s search for her heart’s desire, as that desire evolves. It could also tie in Eli’s similarly shifting search for who he is and what he wants. And/or it could be about the several women on the show struggling with [redacted again] and all the other crap they’re forced to deal with.
If that doesn’t speak to you, then feel free to vid as you desire. If it’s helpful, I like Chaske Spencer and would be pleased with a character study of Eli, if there’s enough there to support a vid. Something that questions and critiques the approach the show takes. A straightforward telling of Cornelia’s story. Maybe a spiral down into men’s ‘heart of darkness.’ Would prefer that it not focus on Melmont.
ATLANTA (TV)
Sales pitch: Disaster friends, social commentary, sharp writing, black humor, Black humor, random one-off episodes that dive into the frightening and/or absurd. Main plot: A guy in Atlanta hits it big as a rapper, and his cousin becomes his manager while negotiating a rocky relationship and trying to co-parent. Starring: Donald Glover! Brian Tyree Henry! Lakeith Stanfield! Zazie Beetz! Celeb cameos! Four seasons streaming on Hulu.
Here's a cool video analyzing what the narrator calls the show’s Afrosurrealism.
Caveats: Content can be disturbing, usually in relation to confronting anti-Black racism in many forms. Also off the top of my head: drug use, gun violence, physical violence, suicide.
Vid request: This show is so good! Yet there are all of 10 fanworks for it on the AO3 and none of them are vids?? So, first off, A VID would be most welcome!
Ideas:
- A recruiter vid that gives a flavor of the characters and their main arc(s).
- A deeper dive into Paper Boi’s life, or Earn’s or Van‘s or Darius’.
- A taste of the way the show veers into the supernatural and/or political thought experiments and/or specific media spoofs.
- A focus on one of the standalone episodes, whether about the main characters (Paper Boi’s journey into the heart of darkness or new jazz? The Teddy Perkins/Michael Jackson or Mr. Chocolate nightmares? Van’s double life as a French baguette-wielding black market dealer?) or anthology standalones (the kid who gets sent into foster care, the ancestral slaveholder’s tax, the affirmative action donor, the homegoing service…).
- Something that manages to capture the humor of the series even though so much of it lies in the dialogue.
- Themes like "being lost" can help make connections.
I look forward to whatever you come up with!
THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI (book)
Sales pitch: A woman made of clay meets a man made of fire in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. There's challah baking and desert flashbacks and sexy seduction and supernatural possession, and, just in time for Purim, evil viziers. Beautiful, comforting prose.
Caveats: I don't remember well enough, sorry. :(
Vid request: One of the things I loved about this book was its vibrant setting, its creation of an atmosphere I wanted to wrap around myself forever. I think what I'm hoping for in a vid is a sort of mood piece, where you feel like you're in this magical 1900-ish Lower East Side or Central Park, sepia toned. (The closest movie I can think of for visual inspiration of the city is Gangs of New York, but I'm sure there's lots more out there I just haven't seen. Maybe Winter's Tale, which held the same sort of early-NY magic?)
And maybe you will give an impression of this large-boned Eastern European woman and this elegant Arab man (I mean, I don't expect our imaginations of Chava and Ahmad to be the same, so I look forward to whomever you choose for your fan-cast, if you fan-cast them). Maybe there will be a bakery and a metalworker's forge, or a desert and a temple, or Jewish and Syrian immigrant communities, or impressions of seduction or murder or enslavement or the clash between subservience/suppression and dominance/recklessness, or maybe there are other aspects of the story you want to highlight, or nothing so complex because it all seems very intimidating. Whatever you make, it's going to be wonderful.
I just ask that you please be sensitive if you choose to cast Schaalman or Schall. No Hollywood stereotypes of giant-eyebrowed, pointy-eared, scheming Jews. Thank you. <3
SAVE YOURSELVES! (2020 movie)
Summary: A progressive millennial Brooklyn couple decide to do a digital detox at their friend’s isolated cabin in upstate NY... so they don’t know aliens have invaded Earth that same day. A charming comedy that’s mainly a rumination on the benefits and detriments of modern communication—addiction, connectedness, disconnectedness, the formation of metaphorical and literal bubbles, how instant access to information can stunt learning. Streaming on Kanopy and I think Hulu.
Caveats: Alcohol and maybe weed. A substance that has a hallucinogenic effect. A few onscreen murders. An orphaned baby. Mention of alien apocalypse and people dying.
Vid request: I just watched this the other week and had a good time. If you can capture the charm of the characters (especially Su) and their relationship, the kookiness of the pouf aliens, and/or the communication theme, that’d be fun. I appreciate your taking on the challenge, given how much of the story happens in the dialogue!
TÁR (2022 movie)
Summary: Downfall of a conductor (Cate Blanchett) at her peak. Or: an uncanny horror film masquerading as an examination of gender and cancel culture.
Caveats: Bullying and (possible) predatory sexual behavior toward students. Discussion of a character’s suicide. Theft of, and gaslighting about, a partner’s medication. Confusion about what’s real.
***CONTAINS SPOILERS***
Vid request: I watched this movie and was impressed with the patience and attention it demands from its viewers, plus the echoes of Black Swan in its early hints at neurosis and intensifying questioning of its protagonist’s sanity as a major performance approaches. Reviewer debates about who was “right” when it came to power dynamics, inclusivity vs. political correctness, and cancel culture were less interesting to me. Then a fandom friend mentioned “the ghost,” and I said what?, and two hours of internet rabbit hole later, I became extra SUPER DUPER impressed by everything that was happening just under the surface.
The ties between the spirits and cleansing Lydia (supposedly) studied among the Shipibo-Konibo and the ghost of Krista and the labyrinth of her own mind. The rampant symbolism, including mirrors, Lydia’s injuries, the heart, the kené, the number 5, the evolving color palette. The embodiment of Lydia’s fear of ignominy and mortality in her elderly neighbor. The creepiness suffused through the entire tale.
At what point does reality fracture? When she pursues Olga into the basement/underworld? When she’s “banished” to a jumbled-up version of Southeast Asia to conduct video game music? When she hides in the bathroom and tackles her conductor frenemy? What about from the very beginning? Was Linda ever actually Lydia, or are we viewing Linda’s greatest dreams and greatest fears ? (We’re asked to believe from the first scene, the interview, that someone could be this absurdly extraordinary. Sure. But maybe that suspension of disbelief is a meta point, and we shouldn’t suspend it.) (I’m among those who believe that the mishmash of Philippines/Thailand/etc. at the end isn’t a result of the director’s racist ignorance but a depiction of Lydia’s; she hasn’t been there and doesn’t know about it and makes stereotyped assumptions about its people and substance and value in her world. It’s still racist, only it's Lydia's racism, and I think the filmmakers count on us to recognize something is wrong and use that to interpret what is or isn't happening.) We never see the elderly neighbor’s face; could she actually be Lydia? Did she dream the scream in the woods? What are we to make of the spectral figures, the metronome, the odd cuts that imply lost time? So much to explore.
I would love a vid that touched on any and all of the above. Something that stitches together all the visual and thematic resonances to tell this story not at face value but as a rich text, a mood, a question.
Music-wise, my favorite genres are folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... If you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.
Thank you!!
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No one has once described this film to me as a ghost story and I am now also much more interested than I was!
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