20 - She/They
I spend more time deciding what to watch than the time I actually spend watching something
All is still in the town of Dogville. Time goes by, yet nothing is affected by it. Dogville exist in a dimension alien to the rest of the world, where the days repeat themselves, every and each of them the same as the previous one. You can almost hear life going by, excluding that god forsaken place from its interest. Unchallenged beliefs make the people of the town self righteously good. So when life suddenly stumbles upon Dogville, every certaintyβ¦
Trapped.
At first, you like it. The attentions, the luxuries. You don't need to worry anymore about the common problems of everyday life. Food, shelter, they are all brought to you in the highest of fashions. The days of wildness are long gone, and life has turned into a wild dream. It's a dream, isn't it? You wake up. The dream has ended, and it has left a bad taste in your mouth. Maybe it wasn't a dream. Those daysβ¦
Start your day early. Start preparing the ingredients. Wash. Cut. Boil. Grill. Stuff. Repeat. Every little detail refined to perfection. Work. Work. Work. Put all of you in it. Your thoughts, so that they might stop hunting you for a while. Your love. Oh, love. You love them so much, your daughters. Why can't you just tell them? Why is it so difficult to say? Do they know, while they sit bored at the dinner table, that you made allβ¦
Saving face. The act of hiding yourself to preserve order, stability, balance. To preserve the work others before you made to be considered respectable. Are you willing to toss years of struggles aside just to feel free? And what is freedom anyways? Freedom doesn't make happiness, but stability can be a strenuous provider of contentment, isn't that enough? So chin up and be content, of the life that's been given to you. But humans are bound by nature to searchβ¦
Nobuhiko Εbayashi saw the world differently. His senses were heightened, more receptive and bright, he had the eyes of a child and the mind of an old, wise man. His movies are acid trips into a marvelous mind, an experience that, in a good or bad way, will surely impact the viewer. Labyrinth of Cinema, his grand final work, cements Εbayashi as one of the most creative minds in cinema; defying every rule constructed in the brief history of theβ¦