I have a crush on Michael Fassbender.
I think I know why. He shares a striking resemblance to a certain someone I know.

Bobby Sands: When you're hung from a cross you're gonna say anything. Jesus offers him a seat next to his daddy in a place called paradise you're always gonna put your hand up and have a piece of that.

Bobby Sands: I have my belief and in all its simplicity. That is the most powerful thing.

source: Mubi, My Mubi

A Tarkovsky film is so much more visually striking and stimulating than most films today. There is so much depth and meaning, so much hope and despair. He created worlds abstract and digestible enough for the viewer to interpret, derive meaning. Worlds that are real and surreal, saturated with the unknown. Worlds that mirror the human condition.

Alexander: Say what you will, but a method, a system, has its virtues. You know, sometimes, I say to myself, if every single day, at exactly the same stroke of the clock, one were to perform the same single act, like a ritual, unchanging, systematic, every day at the same time… the world would be changed. Yes, something would change. It would have to….

Otto: We all are waiting for something. All my life I've been going around waiting for something. All my life, in fact, I've felt as if… as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I've felt as if the living I've done, so far, hasn't actually been a real life, but a long wait for it. A long wait for something real, something important.

Alexander: We have acquired a dreadful disharmony, an imbalance between our material and spiritual development.

Otto: Every gift involves a sacrifice. If not, what kind of gift would it be?

source: Mubi
gallery: film gallery

“The darkness that is not appropriate to talk about.”

I really want to see this. I enjoyed Me and You and Everyone We Know, after watching this trailer, I'm very excited for The Future.

My sister sent me this...
This idea of wildness that comes up in the film — would you say it’s a negative or a positive characteristic?

I came to believe that wild was the same for Sophie as it was for the cat. Paw Paw says something like "At night I know I am alone and always will be," and it’s that kind of place that I think Sophie is in when she has the affair. You don’t cheat on your soul mate if you don’t on some level believe that you’re always going to be alone — that you’re already wild in that sense, in this lonely sense, not in a "Girls Gone Wild" sense. You have to domesticate yourself enough to believe not only in marriage but also in the idea that you could be loved, that you’re not so inhuman, so beyond the pale of what someone could want to commit to.

The first sex scene — when Sophie cheats on Jason with Marshall — comes out of nowhere.

She’s just trying to flee herself. Part of escaping her soul is having sex with some guy in the suburbs, the person who would least call on her to be herself. He’s not going to notice if she’s missing her soul. And so it’s important to "mate" with him because she’s creating this version of herself that doesn’t have to be her. Which I can relate to. I think that is a lot of the appeal of sex with strangers, or near strangers: the sense that you’re escaping yourself and the self that everyone, including you, see you as. Sophie has failed herself artistically, which to someone like me is just the worst possible crisis.

Were you reflecting on the idea that adulthood is being nudged later and later, that if members of the previous generation had until 25 before they had to figure things out, now it’s 35 or 40?

When I was writing the film, I was realizing, "Oh, this is it. I’m not going to do every single thing in the world or have sex with everyone or have a million different careers, just this one." Also I was watching my friends, who had assumed they would become artists and were waitresses or whatever in the meantime, realize: "Oh, I’m not an artist, and it’s time to have a kid." People are suddenly breaking up with people they’ve been with forever. I feel like a fair amount of career change and some real crises are happening around me. That may just be my circle of melodramatic women who I hang out with.

Read the rest of the interview over at Artinfo.

A woman's descent into self.



























source: Mubi
gallery: film gallery

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times . How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood that is so deeply a part of your being you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps, twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

Leila: There's no point in hurting someone who doesn't get hurt, is there?
































source: Netflix
gallery: film stills

Caleb: Also, I haven't slept in a week. So, there's that. Literally… over a week. I find myself sorta in a daze between being asleep and awake and I find myself doing… you know, strange things. Small example of that, the other day I actually introduced myself to a tree.





















source: Netflix
gallery: film stills