tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post2564873816723217786..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: My New Favorite Movieunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-64088141122014845052007-06-25T09:40:00.000-04:002007-06-25T09:40:00.000-04:00Once again you have managed to get more out of a f...Once again you have managed to get more out of a film than I have. My disappointment comes out being such a huge fan of early Hartley, "Surviving Desire," "Trust," "Simple Men," etc. Several weeks ago I watched the short films collected on the DVD with "Surviving Desire," and in my view "Fay Grim" paled in comparison.unemployed negativityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-80117225385336768202007-06-20T22:01:00.000-04:002007-06-20T22:01:00.000-04:00Hi there,I haven't seen La Commune, but now I am i...Hi there,<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen La Commune, but now I am intrigued. It will have to wait since I stopped my netflix subscription--they must have it, no? But wht was Fay Grim a disappoitment? While it is not consistent with the latest wave of Hal Hartley's, it is unique in its depiction of positionalities and reversal of "bad" characters. There is something interesting about the plot, especially at the end, where the Odyssey of Fay Grim seems as futile as the trajectory of Henry Fool--who is depicted as "The Quiet American" of sorts. The sheer nonsense of the espionnage and counter-terrorism characters also paints the futility of ascribing good intentions to any actors in a "war on terror"--where the agents themselves are the terrorists, while the so-called terorrists are stoic and demure ... What the movie focuses on is on how "secrets" (as carrying informational power) are what this is all about and how the control of "knowledge" is the business of what should be called "terror" but is instead fetishized as "espionnage". I may be completely off--and there is so much more to the movie, as always, but...Nihilisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17240321095029537074noreply@blogger.com