I was late for my Mid Victorian poetry class; we are studying Dante and Christina Rossetti. Nothing spectacular. After class I decided to walk for a bit. I ended up in a graveyard, although cemetery sounds less haunted. There seems to be a lot of cemeteries here and some, if not many, are treated as parks, which is weird for me. So I left pretty quick.
I took the subway home. I've nearly finished part 2 of "Angels In America". Before going in the apartment, I went to the park near my house and I laid down by a tree. It was really comfortable and the sun was out and reflected white off the grass.
I went back to my apartment and read about Allen Ginsberg, then I slept from around 3 until 7, or 7:30. Then I had pork chops and I made a pretty good salad.
I was going to go skateboarding, but because I slept so late, I just decided to watch a movie. I watched "Suspira" (1977) by Dario Argento. It was OK. It had a pretty haunting score, with a xylophone and incoherent vocals. It reminded me of the music from "The Exorcist" (1973), even if that isn't an appropriate comparison. I think "Suspria"'s score really adds to the tension of watching it and at times, it's the absence of the score, or really any sound that is the most frightening. Although, it isn't really that scary of a movie - but there were parts... I think that another element of the scariness is that so much of what is said, is actually whispered. It's surprising how much mood is created with anxious whispers. Everything becomes rushed and tense and important and is spoken in quick bursts."Suspiria" also has this unnatural set lighting (reds and blues and greens) which looks bad and takes away from the movie and although the set special effects are good, some of the prosthetics are terribly unreal. It's also interesting to see a movie that is so dominated by female actors...although, it is about ballet and witches, so I guess that is expected. "Suspiria" also takes place in Freiburg, Germany, which I may visit when I go to the Black Forest next month.
I made a sandwich of two fried eggs, ketchup and mayonnaise. Mario, Gabriel's friend, is here too. He arrived just before the movie.
This is a newspaper clipping of the Battle at Gettysburg;
4 comments:
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I think we maybe have almost opposite stylistic tastes. I thought the unrealistic lighting was what made Suspiria so awesome. good points about the whispering though too. Just the production design in general is so sweet, with all the weird architecture in that school. When the headmaster is snoring in their little camp, that's pretty scary but, agreed, it's not a particularly scary movie
I thought the lighting was really similar to the lighting you see in live drama; maybe that's why you liked it?
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