http://blogs.elsweb.org/serena/2007/04/01/choices/ "Not the fuzzy end of the lollipop." Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blogs.elsweb.org/serena/2007/04/01/choices/#comment-418 Poetics by Praxis » Cut and Wait: Tyler’s Paper Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:37:47 +0000 http://blogs.elsweb.org/serena/2007/04/01/choices/#comment-418 [...] both my opening frenzy and has been willing to keep talking about it over the weeks.  Serena continued probing the initial idea in an interesting way.  She took the movie as a religious text, trying on the [...] [...] both my opening frenzy and has been willing to keep talking about it over the weeks.  Serena continued probing the initial idea in an interesting way.  She took the movie as a religious text, trying on the [...]

]]> http://blogs.elsweb.org/serena/2007/04/01/choices/#comment-295 . » Blog Archive » Cut and Wait: Tyler’s Paper Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:03:28 +0000 http://blogs.elsweb.org/serena/2007/04/01/choices/#comment-295 [...]             I remember there was some controversy over my initial Fast Cheap post, where I wondered about the men as four models of God.  Someone suggested that it was a new religion based on Morris, which wasn’t exactly what I meant.  Then Mary Carolyn pointed out that my four models of God weren’t complete, which I understood.  Morris is asking questions, probing- I think he has an open mind about the whole question of God.  I’ve probably talked about this film with Serena the most.  We watched it together initially, so she caught both my opening frenzy and has been willing to keep talking about it over the weeks.  Serena continued probing the initial idea in an interesting way.  She took the movie as a religious text, trying on the implications as Morris made them, finding her own personal interpretation through a Morro-religious lens.  Serena ended up thinking that she’s a headless giraffe shrubbery.  I guess that may be so.  I’m pretty sure I’m a toothless tiger myself, bluffed into a cage I’m more than capable of escaping, or at least wrecking.  Serena’s issues and my issues are represented in different parts of the film.  Even more than the technical artistry of the film, it is this that makes it a masterpiece.  Fast Cheap and Out of Control smashes into my soul every time I watch it (rather, both times I’ve watched it).  But it doesn’t leave me alone, or empty- just open. [...] [...]             I remember there was some controversy over my initial Fast Cheap post, where I wondered about the men as four models of God.  Someone suggested that it was a new religion based on Morris, which wasn’t exactly what I meant.  Then Mary Carolyn pointed out that my four models of God weren’t complete, which I understood.  Morris is asking questions, probing- I think he has an open mind about the whole question of God.  I’ve probably talked about this film with Serena the most.  We watched it together initially, so she caught both my opening frenzy and has been willing to keep talking about it over the weeks.  Serena continued probing the initial idea in an interesting way.  She took the movie as a religious text, trying on the implications as Morris made them, finding her own personal interpretation through a Morro-religious lens.  Serena ended up thinking that she’s a headless giraffe shrubbery.  I guess that may be so.  I’m pretty sure I’m a toothless tiger myself, bluffed into a cage I’m more than capable of escaping, or at least wrecking.  Serena’s issues and my issues are represented in different parts of the film.  Even more than the technical artistry of the film, it is this that makes it a masterpiece.  Fast Cheap and Out of Control smashes into my soul every time I watch it (rather, both times I’ve watched it).  But it doesn’t leave me alone, or empty- just open. [...]

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