Happiness -- now THERE's a good flick.
TP | Email | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 10:48 am | #

I remember showing an online image of Nighthawks to my Greek roommate a couple of months ago by way of explaining something -- what, I no longer recall. If you look at the picture, there are four explicit people plus one implicit one (the viewer who is standing outside the diner), and of these only two are lonely: the viewer who is out in the night, looking in through windows at other people's lives, and the man with his back to the viewer and his head down. The redheaded woman and the man sitting together have their hands touching or almost touching, and the man serving them doesn't seem good humored but nor does he seem lonely.

For some reason this reminds me of an exercise in playwriting class (the only creative writing course I've taken) in which we had to end the scene with a bartender, a dead body and someone walking out with a gun. I think of the viewer as the person with the gun, about to walk in and make this The Day That Was Different. (I think Pulp Fiction necessarily also brought this thought to mind.)
PG | Email | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 11:30 am | #

boogie nights is a cult flick?
Mr. Poon | Email | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 3:10 pm | #

Poon, maybe he gets "l" and "n" confused.
Soup | Email | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 4:22 pm | #

"Boogie Lights," Soup? I'm confused.
Milbarge | Email | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 8:58 pm | #