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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 60 days ago http://moviesfilter.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!82ABAB9A2E2856FD!4924.entry
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I love it when film writer/cultural philosopher/blonde booster Erik Kuersten preaches from his singular mountaintop -- this time championing/quivering in fear over cinematic blonde moms of death (just in time for Mother's Day).
Sayeth colleague (and fellow Swede -- I hear you brother) Kuersten :
"It's mother's day and as I was watching MULHOLLAND DRIVE just now for the millionth time, it occured to me that my love for cinema would not be nearly so fierce if not for my own mother was not a natural blonde, Swedish to be precise, and if you don't know what that means, it's a mix of tenderness and disinterest, the teutonic fire that burns not out nor warm nor long... and it's what cinema is! For psychological subtext there's Hitchcock and Lynch - Naomi Watts, the mother of mirrors hallucinating in her dirty bathrobe while we hover as camera lens ghosts at her hem line, or Marnie in PSYCHO or Melanie in THE BIRDS, creating this sense of unfulfillable longing-- we can never please her so we spend our lives creating shadow plays to distract ourselves... stuffing birds... a curious hobby, and not as expensive as you'd think, until they attack everyone as manifestations of Jessica Tandy's ferocious id."
Read the rest of his story here . Covering moms from "Persona" to "Poison Ivy" -- this is good good stuff.
--posted by Kim ... |
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