HI Bill,
I would disagree with you that Julie’s “passage into the molecular was
momentary and, of course, altogether forced”. In fact Julie’s
molecularization is facilitated by an ‘event’, the crash, which
causes her entire understanding of herself and her world to be
deterritorialized. I would argue that she experiences an immediate
molecularization as soon as she wakes in the hospital to discover that her
family, her identity has been
taken from her. This process of molecularization continues through the famous
sugar cube shot, at which points she begins a gradual movement through
becoming-woman, becoming-animal and lastly, becoming-music as she realizes the
score for her dead husband, who may or may not have composed the remainder.
Interestingly the score follows the same trajectory: it was
90% composed by Preisner before shooting began. As such the score goes through
a need to be molecularized in order to re-enter the mise-en-scene and become-(film)music.
All best,
Gregg Redner