![]() ![]() It does not work like that, of course, that is a given. It is not sci-fi in any way you may recognize, or anymore than Tree of Life is. Here it is the mirrored metaphor the pain and suffering of life on earth as mirrored on the cosmic level, and our hope that this suffering looming above will just pass us by. But now and then he works from a powerful set of ideas. Whereas Tarkovsky understood the universe to be centered inside, and used that to sculpt space and metaphor from that center, Trier is grounded nowhere so he resolves to orbit from one periphery to the next, nicely framing for us anxieties that we can relate to but with no deeper insight of their mechanism. So he is an anti-Tarkovsky, which perhaps explains why he opens the film with The Hunters in the Snow - a painting used in Solyaris - burning, and why horses are forced to kneel in the face of petulant violence. But this is the thing with Trier, why it's so troubling to dismiss him even though he makes art about a meaningless world - and so why pay attention? - he remains a powerful poet of cinema. Nothing is too much for Trier then, because nothing satisfies the mind everything that is touched by humanity is shown to be randomly bubbling up from some cold, infertile void. Nothing in the predominantly Western, post-enlightenment worldview that has pushed god to the side and seated the mind in his place. But, having searched and yearned, eventually with Trier we arrive at nothing. Side by side the romantic, the visceral, the transcendent, each one perversely subverting the others. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Otsootsopamelawanposter.No one probably working today can imbue the image of a bride pissing in the middle of a golf course with the afterglow of existential soul-searching like Trier does here - well, there was Peter Greenaway at one point but I haven't kept track.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Otsootsopamelawanposter.jpg?width=300.The title was inspired from the two novelty dance songs popularized by the main actors: "Otso-Otso" and "Pamela". ![]() ![]() Otso-Otso Pamela-Mela-Wan is a 2004 Filipino comedy film starring Vhong Navarro and Bayani Agbayani. ![]()
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