As I have for this time 'finnished' my thoughts on the Vertigo-triad, I have starte a new hompage, called Film-thinking. In a month the following lines wll be there. Have a look allready now...
"And then all this happened", Evelyne in Pearl Harbor
The docu-soap PH/Pearl Harbors, written by Randell Wallace (Braveheart) and directed by Michael Bay (Armageddon, The Rock), 40 minutes historical centerpiece, is encircled by the man Rafe, the girlish woman Evelyne and Danny-boy. Nurse Evelyne falls first in love with the man Rafe and later with his friend, with Danny-boy, fathering her and dying as Hollywood needs a martyr. The man Rafe steps in as stand-in-father.The centerpiece reminds of Camerons Titanic-scenes of which the silent waterscene reminds of Ingmar Bergmans waterscene in 'Skammen'.The PH event was designed and meant by Japan as as a surprise, which it was!, repeated 60 years later by global terrorists, to be referred for all futuretimes as the "11th", the second time threatening the (sleeping) giant. Many could not believe what the wittnessing eye saw, commenting "it doesn't seem real", mindthinking onTowering Inferno, 1974, King Kong (the 1976 remake, which featured heavy artillery attacks on the World Trade Center) and Independence Day (the Finnish Television Broadcasting Company showed a clip from Independence Day and the collapsing of one of the WTC tower), catapulting planet Earth into a trauma, forgetting every other trauma in other parts of the planet. Japans ancient culture proclaimed 1941 war against Texas oilwells, Admiral Yamamoto pondering: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.". The same day, eventcommenting, "Now we can not loose this war", Adolf Hitler withdrew his troops from Moscow and in Chelmo were the first 700 jews gased to death. Evelynes false lovefall helps the dyslectic Rafe to pass, though he is clearly unable to read the words on the chart. Is it a metaphore-signal that the Letter is not needed, as society more than ever has accepted visuality, the picture, the icon? Only a minority uses Danny-boys reading ability (his death a metaphoric signal for it), instead highlights the (mindblind) dyslectic man Rafe who has to educate with his speciality Danny-boys and Evelynes child, the future? Todays visual society, believing that fiction is more real than reality, having a never satisfied visual hunger for all kind of catastrophes, docu-soap-communicates, daily spiced with medias brainwashing mixture of infotainment and docudramas, with the (O)other. The deal is clear: permission is given to recognise, but forbidden to see; therefor was 1941 needed and is needed 2001 the hero Roosevelt and Bush, telling us what to think, feel and do.That as the reason why the overall human taste has reached docu-soaps level, though http://www.imdb.com counts 131 PH-critics (Camerons Titanic 190) and not many are nice to Pearl Harbor. Recognise Pearl Harbor - but see it in From Here to Eternity.
stephanSE 2001-12-26
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