Friday, October 17, 2008

How To Make Arabbit Hut

ERAM SEA



Romanzo

ERAM MARE

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Immagine di B. Carollo

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Introduction

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August 30, 1998 Sunday Alcamo via Archimede 14


Way in an infinite hallway of a house, left and right panels of forefathers mustache, beards, sideburns, a Cardinal, I realize that the corridor is long out of sight, sound dim, slanting light filtered by consumptive side slits in the top row of pictures I see another then another and still others in twilight, you see the roof and perhaps all of the rooms are displays of faces, gestures, expressions busts of neglect, delay Hypnosis in front of a huge painting depicting a man sitting in a bed intent on putting on a sock at me and his eyes are alive, by the end of the corridor a naked fat woman advancing towards me, echoing on the floor the soles of his feet, as it approaches known to have a body with folds and masses of elephant meat hanging, strangely I can see it at the same time front and back, has an abnormal ass obscenely vulgar emphasized by a red thong, but a girl with a face divine ' aura of golden light, a whisper I reveals that it is the Madonna, cockroaches blacks with shiny shells come in a crack in the wall, my mother in front of a mirror combing her long hair teen, radiant light in the great room with nothing, nessun mobile, niente, solo lei che si pettina i capelli allo specchio e i muri irregolari di calce bianca delle pareti scrostate, in un’alcova interna della finestra colombe battono le ali e tubano, nella cattedrale luce discendente da vetrate rossoblu, santi, un prete dice messa, il resto della chiesa è penombra, da un organo note lontane, anche l’omelia è atona, le parole si distinguono con difficoltà, vanno e vengono, nelle prime file solo poche vecchie grinzose inginocchiate sussurrano preghiere, buio tutto intorno con chiazze di luce giallastre da ceri lumini e candele di cappelle delle navate laterali, lunghi colonnati, nelle volte affreschi di trionfi di Madonne con tripudi di angeli e allegorie, odore d’incenso jasmine mixed with holy water and mold, from the bottom of a dark flock invades the church, even the sound of bells around his neck was muffled up to fade away, only to end a silence you hear hooves trample the cartilage that marble is the basilica of Alcamo I see a centipede on a column of red marble which is a fossilized giant snail, ammonite, the basilica is now a crumbling ruin in the countryside, if you dig around you might find the ruins of an old city, Alcamo, even goats and their Semitic face amid the ruins of the dome and moldy scraps of frescoes, the sun blazes above, the olive trees of a print of Van Gogh - the first floor of my house while I'm sitting at my desk with lamp lit - begin to rustle under the breath of a breeze inside the picture, I see a glow down against the inside of a dark room, the sound of the curtain of vertical strips of clear plastic agitated by a slight wind out of a blinding light flattens things, fish Alcamo, polished tables of a bar of iron, light unsustainable old dressed in black, some with a black armband to play broom, to too much light hardly see anything, everything is without dimension, fluid continues, the sounds are amplified as in underwater world, my father died three years talking with the other two, looks at me, I only hear his voice in an unreal silence, go forward without recognizing, dopo un po’ un corteo funebre segue una carrozza trainata da quattro cavalli neri bardati, anch’essa è nera con pareti di cristallo e putti, arriva dal Corso, sta passando, si sentono solo le ruote e i cigolii delle molle, dentro la carrozza mi guarda una bimba triste e stupenda con ali bianche slanciate, stessa scena ma con dentro la carrozza milioni di topi che annusano per uscire, dentro la carrozza uno storpio – ha addome gambe e zoccoli di capro – sodomizza un angelo, domenica di sole, piazza Ciullo deserta, rondini volano basse controsole in cerchi, globi di luce abbagliante, una campana squilla a lunghi intervalli, vedo la piazza in un istante dall’alto e dal basso, nella piazza deserta una bimba vestita da prima communion to play I'll be back, pulling a skipping stone and reciting a nursery rhyme, in a process of film ideal, cramped closet without tile, a yellow lamp hanging by a thread full of dust and dung flies while the old hunchback Little House is a fellatio to a 12 year old girl accosted in the dark room, prof. Panella with glasses of literature circles and golden beard sessantottesca talking about art and the ultimate reality so twisted with another in a suit and tie you down the sidewalk of the Corso in April, suddenly in front of them a construction worker falls from scaffolding on the asphalt the fourth floor, a thud, died instantly, the other Panella still indifferent to discuss just throwing a glance distracted on the body and pass on without stopping, from a window I see the sea and a network of fishermen with fragments of human bodies caught sitting to repair hundreds of priests in black robes are lost in perspective, between the heads caught recognize some familiar faces forgotten friends, and acquaintances of military service and glimpsed through a second, far away on the waves of the sea in the night float a cathedral is the Basilica di Alcamo lit file waving lighted candles on the water, while the church is slowly pulled away from current with a priest bald head and thick neck lumpy along the central aisle and pray on their knees under the high cross, is very contrite, weeping and while we see that the buttons of the tunic comes out with a big penis and the veins in his penis out the button that almost comes under the neck, between graves in a cemetery crosses and marble monuments and a party with people dressed in bejeweled evening, the light red candles on the tombstones reverberant talking amiably, presentations are made, the cemetery is full, even the underground burial chambers are full, multi-file photos of the dead, I also go around each other looking for an acquaintance, Meanwhile skim reviewed the niches, and I realize that many faces are those of the party, among so many faces I find a plaque on my wall, I have no particular reaction only a slight surprise, during a Sunday in April you passeggiano gli alcamesi tutti nudi, poi un esodo di popolo che sfolla nudo in tutte le strade, in un letto un uomo e una donna scopano, si dicono frasi oscene mentre sono stravolti dall’eccitazione e sudati, l’uomo eiacula sul viso di lei urlando Porcaaa, infinita per le strade di Alcamo si snoda la Processione alla Madonna, una processione che stavolta durerà in eterno, alla quale partecipano tutti gli alcamesi di tutti i tempi, vivi e defunti, fantasmi diafani e zombi mezzo decomposti in mezzo agli altri impassibili, nella chiesetta di San Paolo davanti all’altare un prete celebra un matrimonio tra una novantenne e un bimbo, lei è vestita da sposa con un lungo velo bianco, ha branchie al collo e una mano palmata azzurra e squamosa, Tommaso Buscetta, sorry mafia, with irrefutable facts admits to having witnessed a meeting with Pope John Paul II kissing and Toto Reina, the Pope kneeling kissed the ring, during the jubilee, the Pope appeared at the window announced the canonization of godfather Bernardo Provenzani head of the dome, the crowd cheering the announcement, Bruno Vespa dedication ceremony, the transmission PortoaPorto making him sign with the ritual of Puncia a contract with the Italians, one morning the angels descend from heaven, if they meet in the streets of downtown old, are tall, silent and have huge wings, returning from a trip to discover that the country is completely empty and deserted, the doors are opened by and explore, everything has remained intact and silent in its place, there's just strange that some walls of stone houses, whitewashed dry or had one or more bright eyes, sometimes Alcamo is totally submerged by the sea, apnea swimming in the streets and the stairs of the houses, one day fall from the sky pieces of human bodies, chests, heads, hands, arms, two men are on a lift, do not speak, the other one looks down the law written close to the mirror, the car will not stop at any level, this is their eternal damnation, the streets are deserted in Alcamo, Alcamo wrinkled old man with a beret and a cigarette in his mouth without filter Alfa arrive in Piazza Ciullo, muffled sounds of organs, Christ seated on a bench, the old man stuck three feet away, the tip with a shotgun and shoots to kill him, approaches the body and spit screams in silence full of echoes Curnutu, Pezzu mmerda ri, Si cu nuddu mmiscatu components, in high eaves of old houses and old rotten baby move in the balance, I do not know where they are, there is total darkness engulfs me a loud laugh, in a richly furnished room in a building two men sitting in chairs before a fireplace are talking, at some point the landlord gets up and, motioning to wait a minute, shall enter into an adjoining closet, where another man sat crying in pain, her tears are channeled into special tubes transparent fino a un recipiente di vetro a forma di alambicco, con flemma riempie due bicchieri, torna nell’altra stanza, offre da bere all’ospite e continua la conversazione, invece che in un altro stanzino l’uomo che piange è in un angolo della stessa stanza e l’operazione dei bicchieri viene svolta davanti agli occhi egualmente indifferenti dell’ospite, vecchie vestite di nero col fazzoletto nero in testa sedute in cerchio davanti a un braciere recitano il rosario, vecchie nude con solo un orologio al polso recitano il rosario, nelle strade delle maggiori città europee una nuova pubblicità, in enormi cartelloni in mezzo al traffico un bimbo nero denutrito, pelle e ossa, grandi occhi incavati pieni di mosche e zanzare ai margini, a shiny gold watch on your wrist Solex, the message of the billboard says THE TIME 'PRECIOUS, a former elementary school teacher punishes a child in front of the class in laid, the class laughs, then chokes him, binds to the board and the corpse is acclaimed by the student body happy, rewarded by a delegation of ladies with a medal on the chest, the band played at full blast, attended by delegates from former combatants and helplessness of the country, post offices, the time is still, even the clocks block, white light from the windows, in the eyes of people lined up neatly bovine resignation, beyond the door an old man hunched and wrinkled naked with a cigarette a watch on your wrist e le ali è l’impiegato postale, in una grande stanza quadrata molte persone sedute aspettano, hanno sguardi spenti, metafisici, c’è una luce piatta, nessuno parla, fisso i primi piani di visi inespressivi, poi mi accorgo che in fondo c’è una porta aperta con un’altra stanza identica pure piena di persone e oltre quella un’altra ancora, le stanze si vedono in prospettiva, davanti all’ingresso dell’ultima stanza chiusa c’è un vecchio usciere con grossi vetri da miope che chiama le persone ad uno ad uno per nome e cognome, esitanti entrano dentro, l’ultima stanza è vuota senza finestre ma con una luce propria e un neonato che cerca di muovere i primi passi, dentro l’ultima room there is a naked old catarrh grins as he could, the penis's dangling limp along and inside there's a corpse in a bed, you see the new soles of the shoes and an old man standing count aloud slowly One two three four ... without ever stopping, into the last room there is an old whore lewd waiting customers, inside is a beautiful teenager that Madonna you look at a mirror, there are hundreds of doves cooing and flying banging hard on the wings, panting and their guttural sounds are a cryptic esoteric language that is deciphered by a court reporter sitting in a coffee table with the forearms of his jacket wrapped in a black silk as old newspapers, inside is full of vultures, everyone who enters is torn apart by their hooked beak, inside is the edge of a cliff, everyone who arrives without changing pitch and expression falls into the abyss, inside is an old high thin gray mustache, bags under his eyes watery, with a pinstripe suit, dapper, and bureaucratic-looking behind him a huge buffalo, the man with a solemn nod encourages you to get closer as the index to reveal a secret, when you're near the starting left a fart that invests obscene and lowers to the ground mutton, and began to writhe with laughter without being able to stop even the usher who peered from the door ajar toothless grins, then goes back serious and solemn - smooth bony hands with the old greasy black suit - includes a call to the call, I notice that in the old dress at the shoulder blades where there are two tears leaving two small chicken wings, two of twelve, during the 'deserted summer that made Alcamo, walking in the afternoon looking for something to do, are in the castle district, they get to talking and they walk a step, fall away from St. Joseph Barone, realize that a dilapidated house survived the centuries with a door eroded, scraped the wall, there is a sign that says SiVende dusty, the country seems to be a fatal abandoned village, do not pass cars or people, not having an old crippled and bent on his stick is swallowed up in an alley away, but the same old scene is engulfed by a wall away, eaten by the magnetized wall wicked curious decide to enter the house to see if there is the ghost of the turkish , push the door creaking open and turning on a single hinge, the other is no longer attached to the door and the frame worm-eaten, come closing the door behind him, silent shadows only two rays of sunlight cut through the dark showing a dust up to the third step, the smell of mold and piss on the stairs full of debris and hunting of doves, rise up, cobwebs everywhere, a black beetle hiding in a crevice of a step, the walls rotting fungi grow, after a flight coming in the one room and see a woman with a white veil and a pale anemic sounding a dusty piano and sings choruses Slavs, they see a group of old men sitting on the ground among the debris read ancient texts in Aramaic, they see a sad angel with wings of white feathers behind the glass window of the dusty bumpy look at the sky and count One two three four five ... not to move or stop, an old chant these words while I wander
Wizard Alcamo not a stretch
my old neighborhoods and suburbs seaport
my hands caught fire
sad processions of children praying in cemeteries
the red sun in the night (yellowed keys organ cathedrals of afternoons)
like a bonfire burst into a thousand syllables of fire around us

crows flying drunk some real die burned
rivers flowing into me
migrating birds inside me
solitude of courts ever seen in me

blue and red flowers have sprung
me in the eyes and wrinkles in my
grows a huge daffodil
but the hands are still on fire
sad groping
full of love in this room flooded with interstices

I get lost in distant lands unknown
of preexisting
infinity
a convent desecrated
inside me

camel
too old abandoned in the desert
follow

walking slowly with his mouth chewing sand

the track that will take me to the last

(away)
haven in Simurgh


The sky is a mirror that reflects me
at all times in all directions at the same time

useless and empty, and all have a caravan of gypsies
dirges ghosts
thoughts of dead babies and



At some point humans begin to exhibit strange behavior, you stripped naked in the streets, one commits suicide during a banal conversation about a football game suddenly jumping from a balcony on the tenth floor, I feel for few seconds while still quiet plunges his speech, two of them, and Scatton Ferrer, killing a student for no reason, TV news, tired of suicides with the tube in the exhaust gas of the car, pulled the stones from the bridges on cars running, mothers cut the throats of their children, give the news of the men who butchered dogs to bite, Silvio Berlusconi forced to leave the country to change nationality but was elected President of the USA, then an Egyptian papyrus reveals that thousands of years ago mankind adopted the surrealist revolution and the present life is the result of millennia of evolution that choice, even the can of Coke on this table is surreal, everything is surreal one God is real, the whole universe is a noumenon, an atom of my body is a body atom of the universe is an atom of the body that God has no body or no body, like an atom of my body does not know my body I can not know God or myself, there is no distinction between subject and object, between me and others, between one and all, between being and not being, between outside and inside, the demonstration of God is my erection, dark, light, light of the dark, a big laugh is behind us, told me in a dream Bunuel Add shots of the four elements of fire
empedoclei
Shooting Shooting Air (skies of sunrise, sunset ...)
Resumption of land (portions of areas Inland random objects in the foreground framed insistently ...)
Shooting water (rivers, sea, rain, puddles, water flowing in the gutter, the hole in the sink, in the large glass windows ...)

human re-re- Shooting things in motion
precarious and transient things (hair, rags on the street, pieces of papers, fibers, dust, a dialogue of any one day between any two random people ...)
Write-old photos and hourglasses
Everything passes and is not, everything is still and does not pass
Images of animals, clocks, mirrors, shadows and reflections in shop windows, to breathe, nude, chanted repetitions of numbers (states of numbers), repetition of principles (such as performances of the principle of non-contradiction, identity ...)
God's silence engulfs us. We swallow God with his silence. And scaracchiamo ground

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July 7, 2000 9:40 am Scopello stacks

Two kids on my left hand's shadow on this ink, the pores of the hairs, grooves joints, heart beat, skin taut, the sea has voices buzzing, sweaty ciiv CIIP a sparrow voices of swimmers, move their eyes in their sockets, the Mediterranean huge water sinuous flanks of female, a young white woman costume strong body, energy for peaceful convent cell, from the warm embrace my shoulders, chin hair lace on his left arm, warm a snake I'm lying on the edge of the sea on a wall of perceptions, to my left the tuna fishermen of Scopello, green shutters open , doors ajar to vanidduzzu, silk curtains, veils bored, the bird now in a slot under the eaves point flickering in the dark, yellow canoe, the sun bakes me in your oven, go through the door of reality, I can not write, let disordered thoughts free bathed swam up to ship shape of rock salt in the mouth, nostrils water, a couple he latte hat with visor, with her blonde treccinemaglietta sings Lucio Battisti, drawl In a world that is ... a prisoner, yellow flowers of mimosa tree fallen on these steps, the yellow light in a dying wail of happiness that goes away, Van Gogh bleeds yellow maze of cracks in this wall, I sat on the steps, ants move forward like soldiers in a review in the battlefield after the fight, moving in a timeless stillness, the red head, a tuft of grass leaves to star in the shadow of the wall with purple stems and sway in the wind, a crack appears a family tree, the pulmonary capillaries, revealed by a haruspex ramifications esoteric, mystical dowsers in tunics embroidered with gold and silver called a synod to settle the signs of fate in crepa, re assiso al trono trasportato a braccia fin qui aspetta responso, si sacrifica una vergine in bianca veste di seta trasparente, energumeni la legano a un palo, danze a ritmo di sistri egizi e tamburi, epilettici vengono fatti cadere in trance schiuma bavosa alla bocca raccolta in vassoi d’oro con effigi di gesta d’Ulisse e interpretata lungamente da sacerdoti con lunghe barbe la vergine affidata al mare per placarne l’ira allontanata in zattera nuda in mare aperto pesce verrà la sverginerà e la divorerà per tregua non definitiva abbisognando sempre altre vergini mensili simultaneamente falange di adolescenti sul bagnasciuga nel rito collettivo esorcistico e propiziatorio si sparano seghe sborrate all’unisono, antichi rattoppi di calce, pace di ombre assorte, alti gabbiani sugli scogli sorvegliano il mare, gridano, il suono si perde nel fermento delle onde, del tempo, della memoria, delle immagini, del blu, della luce accecante del meriggio, degli orologi per sempre fermi, chiudo le palpebre per cercare di vedere qualcosa attraverso le ciglia, luminosità tenebrosa, questo albero è vicino a un’ancora erosa, ossidata scultura di Giacometti, l’albero ha la saggezza, sua apparente fissità, radici per una minima linfa, tronco immobile rami sottili foglie ancora verdi, luce vento brezza marina, contatto consapevole con l’energia secolare del marfaraggio, entro nella terra sotto la base oscura del tronco, aridità, respiro, fermo, I am the tree, I turn around, sleepy courtyard, still sitting on the marble steps straight lopsided endorsed among tufts of grass, leaves, ants, their backs against the wall, eyes at the floor of the court, pebbles, weeds that the top opens like a hand filament blonde, summer, part of the courtyard is lit by the sun, geraniums in the end we are sunk in the heat drunk, the other lies in the cool shade, rapt silence, a slim, iron fixed between two walls, the simple presence startled, a grateful closes another courtyard dominated by a mighty tree oblique who sleeps with his dead branches, a few surviving green tuft, higher still a huge slope of the summit rocks, cactuses palmenane parched stubble in calcinante time that passes, the undertow of the sea, next to the grate oxidized another crack in the wall stands as a petrified lightning, a patched with white lime, there are all the signs of time inconsistency in this forgetful, bees drink the mouth of a dripping faucet wall, a fig tree casts its shadow on the ground, the sea is strengthened, ruminating thoughts of my ex, figs are not ripe white flesh a sweet red spots in the country thirty years ago by my grandfather, I remember surfaced from the depths of oblivion, I climbed up a tree, cultivated fruit, tasted, the gesture of the hand that takes, I caress the rough leaf the back, happy, lonely, strange memories of disinterred naturalness, and sometimes as a child I had déjà vu also warning, sure that thing would have to be remembered, there was an aura around, I saw a door, the roughness of living a surface and are enchanted, a face of a passerby in the street that led away a shot of a swing door had resonances ancestral projections theological, Augustinian passatofuturo welding, I had the setting for the time past, present and lost for eternity found, the presence of death, enter the door of the moment, being, energy flow of an endless dream to be dreamed of an eagle or an eagle, drowning in the absurd, and is sweet to shipwreck in this sea, a white butterfly alights on the grass, the metamorphosis of the caterpillar, I try my metamorphosis setting the semblance of reality, one beyond pluralism and the apparent duality, a lizard climbs the wall stops at a waiting position carefully and view lamp off three feet above my body sitting, streetlight old country dirt and dust flies to poo concave dish with white enameled metal black exterior border, even in the corners of the streets at night guts of Alcamo still survive

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Fearne Cotton Flexible

poems






Carollo Baldassare

Poems
image Baldo Carollo





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I wander in Alcamo
not my flight into the mountains passing the walls deform
districts
piazza Ciullo I note in an old sea port ever
suburbs and my hands have caught fire
sad processions of children praying in cemeteries
the red sun in the night (yellowed keys organ cathedrals of afternoons lighted candles)
as a fire erupted in a thousand syllables
of fire around us fly drunk
crows some real die burned
rivers flowing into me
migrating birds inside me
solitude of courtyards ever seen

the room stacked breaths
councils invisible presences

blue and red flowers have sprung
me in the eyes and wrinkles in my
grows a huge daffodil
but the hands are still on
full of wisps of love groping

the room is flooded with interstices

things get hallucinations

explore unknown lands of distant preexisting

in a convent desecrated - inside of me
countless passages
steps
hallways
salt of votive
dusty wedding dress
corpses hung

dirges clotted small windows to breathe

scale cliffs

stone walls

think saints stare at me in mute silence

drops

chimes made from demonic
Maari


sitting on the floor at the foot of the walls
old tattered
recite sutras

whisper and waves of laughter
yell mantra

implore
blaspheme

chant love songs and rhymes

remember a previous life as a camel
was too old and eventually abandoned in the desert I


then walking slowly with his mouth gnashing sand
followed listless
track
At last
far

oasis where I was born

the drums mie quattro zampe
i miei respiri furono sciamani

buio
svampito
stramazza

sabbia di clessidra
tramutò
nostalgia









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Il mare ha inondato piazza Bagolino
dentro il Bar Tiffany andirivieni dell’onda
siedono bevono è inverno sono immerso fra detriti
non sento freddo una piccola folla
attende l’annottare un pipistrello svolazza felici
come in un giorno di festa della Madonna
o di terremoto allegria displaced
I see the faces of everyone but family members do not recognize them
deformed monster nostalgia
embrace redundancy of reflections hangs a chandelier
navigation
last time dumb stone

castaway on a raft of shadows
held by

ropes of


words without meaning


and without memory

I

eyes of jellyfish





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The openers' s steel on the glass table in its impassive

spends millions to nothing
years crumbles essay
inert passive atomic configurations
impermanent
story does not touch the house does not belong to him, nor does it belong to
nothing
not hear the chatter of humans in the room no harm
all'estenuazione
the death over a
this conspiracy of silence flies at the speed of light
with the galaxies are moving away from all
and fly together, but maybe I do not know where
dragged by the current poor pin
cosmo
hisses for a moment trembling in the darkness of the universe does not remain
nothing but a sad useless heroic
laugh in the face of God and do not touch the dead
placed the knife steel
glass on the table to the passage of time as a debris

laughs and fades

Friday, September 12, 2008

Walk With Feet Turned Out

Memento

(it. Memento)

color and b / w, USA, 2000 , Christopher Nolan

Duration: 113 min.

Genre: psychological thriller

Cast: Guy Pearce (Leonard), Carrie-Ann Moss (Natalie), Joe Pantoliano (Teddy Gammel), Mark Boone Junior (Burth), Russ Fega (Waiter), Joria Fox

(Leonard's Wife), Stephen Tobolowsky (Sammy Jankins), Harriet Sansom Harris (Mrs. Jankis), Thomas Lennon (Doctor), Callum Keith Rennie (Dodd) Kimberly Campbell (Blonde), Marianne Muellerleile (Tattooist), Larry Holden (Jimmy)

Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan (based on his short story "Memento Mori "), Christopher Nolan

Music: David Julyan

Photography : Wally Pfister

Editor: Dody Dorn

Distribution: Warner Bros

We all need to remember
there a way to live and a time to suit certain works of art that transcend the common sense of perception, comprehension, penetration of reality that surrounds us. It 'good to be in these particular circumstances when you are engaging in works such as Memento, more than a simple sequence of frames on the screen, a state of mind.
All Memento whole structure is designed and managed to create, from the first scene to the last, is unsettling, deeply chaotic in its perfect order non-linear, full of truth hidden between the lines, ready to be picked by those who wants to take, but especially those in able to do so.
supreme example of how the assembly is not only functional film work, but rather its fundamental resource to create a visual narrative, to build an invisible path as palpable among the sights and sounds, Nolan's film, the second most of time comes to restore a dogma beloved by directors just ordinary, what has now become a kind of label to show off to prove to be alternative. The non-linear narrative of Memento makes it a unique gem in the movies of all time, almost an object of study, research, because the effort that offers the viewer is a powerful neural milking, which causes the maximum voltage drop of the notice attention, even those within the space of existence as a nanosecond. Each part of the work, every frame, every word is weighed, examined with suspicion, then rearranged and placed in its proper order to build immense puzzle disconnected we are called to solve, while the narrative takes us by hand in this Fantastic journey through the maze of memory and its deceptions, its wonders, its abyss.

The story is the first part of this originality in this compound prematurely.
Leonard, the hero is a man who has a problem: His anterograde memory was damaged in its functioning, so can not maintain dei ricordi a breve termine, per più di qundici minuti. Dopo quel lasso di tempo, i suoi ricordi e la sua realtà ritorna ad un punto ben preciso della sua memoria passata, resettando ogni cosa, facendo tabula rasa. Così non ricorda più dove ha dormito la sera precedente, nè tantomeno cosa ha mangiato appena quindici minuti prima, chi ha conosciuto la mattina precedente... e se si dilunga in una conversazione per più di quei fatali quindi minuti, non solo non ricorderà più l'oggetto della tale discussione, ma non si ricorderà più neppure di conoscere il suo interlocutore.
Leonard era un agente assicurativo incaricato di individuare le frodi dei clienti della sua compagnia. Una notte, mentre dormiva al fianco his wife is brutally assaulted, murdered his partner, he hit on the head in a violent manner. The trauma of the loss of his wife and received physical damage due to the blow to the head, Leonard reduce to a broken man, broken, missing a normal life, a lifetime of normal, ordinary. The inability to remember anything for more than fifteen minutes cuts it off from the world, as one might expect. Lost everything, Leonard decides he must give meaning to his life, and to do so must find and kill the killer of his wife.
is not a simple story of revenge, no, but a dizzying vortex in a mind broken by fragments of reality that spread everywhere without mnemonic a lawful order, with nothing that seems to unite them. It 's the life of Leonard, our time as we identify ourselves in him through the state of the art of editing and management director, who put us in place, the confusion in not knowing, unconsciousness of our precarious existence.
So Leonard decides to take revenge. His particular physical condition, however, forces him to take steps to ensure that his project will go through. Through the tragic story of Sammy Jankins, whom he met during one of his duties before the attack, we know that if you have this type of disorder, the record on notebooks and notebooks, miscellaneous sheets you have to do is especially harmful. The leaves are lost, spreading, mnemonic media surrogates are inefficient.
why Leonard is an innovative and superior. Through tattoos, he impresses on his skin, his body, every clue found useful to identify the culprit of the murder of his wife, turning himself in its grounds, in the middle and the implementation of its vengeance. The milestones in his permanent written indelibly in the body, like the memories they had to do with his brain cells, to fix the memory. So he still has a failing memory to be able to simulate.
His body becomes a living map mnemonic, a labyrinthine path to follow, a rebus button intentions.
method, is what distinguishes Leonard Jankins by Sammy.
Photographs, Polaroid snapshots, are another means of control that Leonard used to prevent chaos and disorder of his life is confusing on its way. Faces, objects, places, are all cataloged and immortalized by Polaroid in the captions, to define the world around them - a world that is formed, but that hides its true intentions, because they constantly forget. So, using those titles, Leonard announced his future I forget everything, if that face is photographed a friendly face or an enemy if he is in that place già stato e cosa rappresenta, qual'è la sua auto, dov'è il luogo dove risiede attualmente.
E' la fotografia, che da sempre è servita all'uomo per immortalare un istante, renderlo perenne nel tempo, per prolungarne la memoria, qui funge da protesi mnemonica vera e propria, nell'estensione di questa sua funziona presso la nostra normale percezione dei ricordi. Le foto e i tatuaggi, creano una sinergia inestricabile, inscindibile, che sostituisce la memoria di Leonard con dei surrogati, non altrettanto efficaci ma funzionali, rudimentali e ingegnosi sistemi di sopravvivenza al fato avverso.
Leonard ha dei nemici, gente che lo usa per i propri scopi approfittando del suo disturbo; per questo è necessario che He maintains the register of those negative events and people that are causing them, which would lead astray, away from his true goal. His world is a mess and then of suspicion, paranoia, hallucinatory doubt excruciating dilemmas. Can not trust anyone and everyone could be a disturbing element, a profiteer, a potential hostile. Leonard can only trust himself, the evidence that the self of the fifteen minutes before he left to himself now.
Its actually based on a continuous implementation by itself, in a rare example of the principle of personal self-determination.
Leonard's character is embodied by fisiscamente Guy Pearce excited to take parte al progetto di Memento, e immagine ideale dell'uomo che vuole rappresentare. Impeccabile nel mostrarsi sperduto ma risoluto, Pearce firma la sua migliore interpretazione di sempre, regalando al grande schermo un personaggio indimenticabile.

La struttura del film è il vero punto di forza di tutta l'opera, basata sulla storia, partorita da essa. Il montaggio del film è a dir poco geniale quanto contorto.
Il film è suddiviso in due linee narrative parallele ma con moto opposto, che si susseguono costantemente durante tutta la durata dell'opera. La prima linea narrativa, composta da spezzoni di cinque minuti l'uno, è a colori, ed è montata all'inverso. Then, it follows that the first block of five minutes of this narrative line, is the last scene, while the last block is the first stage of history. During this line develops real narrative, the life cycle of history, the survey and the mad rush to vengeance by Leonard. These clips
color than five minutes, are interspersed with other clips, black and white, assembled chronologically. Here Leonard talking on the phone with a mysterious interlocutor, he remembers that not even the identity, being more than fifteen minutes on the phone with him. In this cycle we see a narrative story about Sammy Leonard Jankins, the genesis of his method in the way sometimes Leonard alone are tattooed body.
All this is introduced by a brief scene, which introduces the opening credits, we witness the development of a Polaroid taken soon. Following is Leonard who shoots someone in the head. This short sequence is turned backwards, and serves as an introduction not only to the film, but the entire system that utilizes narrative. The viewer is therefore cordially advised by Nolan, his work will be neither compassionate nor even ordinary people who do not like to think deeply about what he sees and hears.
The dramatic musical introduction to this scene, David Julyan, along with other tracks during the film impresses with deep sadness that is inherent in dramma di Leonard, quello di essere un uomo senza memoria, senza passato, senza identità, senza futuro nè speranza. La musica della colonna sonora originale è fondamentale in questo film, come lo sono anche i silenzi.
Dopo l'introduzione ecco uno degli spezzoni cronologicamente lineari, in bianco e nero, con Lenny che si risveglia in una stanza d'albergo. Ancora la musica, sempre uguali per la linea narrativa in bianco e nero, che inquieta, perchè è sottilmente infida, scandisce metronomicamente un tempo inesistente per Leonard, che afferma questa sua incertezza così:
"Allora.. dove sei? Sei in una stanza d'albergo... ti sei svegliato e sei in una stanza d'albergo. Ecco la chiave. Per te è come se fosse la prima volta che sei qui, ma invece potresti essere qui da una settimana, o da tre mesi... è difficile dirlo. No, non lo so. E' solo una stanza qualunque."
E' un brano inquientante, all'interno del quale si possono rintracciare ombre del lavoro che Akira Yamaoka ha compiuto per Silent Hill, il videogame della Konami del 1999.
L'intera colonna sonora originale è costellata da brani melliflui, a volte molto lenti, che scorrono come un banco di nebbia mentale. Spesso alla fine dei brani vi sono dei dialoghi tratti dalle sequenze in bianco e nero del film, dove Leonard riflette o parla al telefono, a sottolineare quanto la musica nel film sia complementare alla narrazione.

Christopher Nolan Memento touch with the peak of his directing career. Legend has it that he remembered discussing the idea of \u200b\u200bthe film in a car ride the thing with his brother, Jonathan, who wrote the short story from which the film is based, "Memento Mori". In an interview, the director admitted he was terribly attracted to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe unreliable narrator, the investigator was unable to fix something that was caused by him. As in other films in this genre, as in "Angel Heart", we are faced with uncertainty, doubt among the doubts, the self-evident fact that perhaps our point of view might be totally distorted. What is safe, what reality, and where it starts the error, the mistake?
Some existential questions such as these have the power to panic even the most strong and determined men, and here it is used for art.
The brilliant assembly also places the viewer to identify himself completely into the story. In the narrative line in color, one mounted backwards, the first scene is always the last color of the scene later, a useful device to recreate the sense of loss of meaning, namely non-linear sequence in which Leonard captures the information or simply live the moment. E 'effective and terribly effective, so that anyone who has seen Memento even for ten minutes, will experience a sense of confusion, uncertainty and loss totals. Who does not get up quickly from his chair, will be swallowed into the vortex of Leonard's disease, and will try to solve life as he would with her, trying to put together the pieces of the mosaic that has gone mad before. The two narrative continuum
different color mounted upside down in black and white and mounted on a regular basis, feed into a single sequence at the end, merging all the different fragmented reality in one large application, the final question of the most atrocious.
Nolan signed a cinematic revolution that is pure surprise, total interest, that leaves no one who is able to capture, to hold out for the first few minutes. And 'returning to the cinema that can convey the magic of the improbable, the suspension of disbelief, the desire to let go. E 'endless work, of infinite potential, which defines the cinema.
The Journey of Leonard is not an experience for everyone, indeed. Though there is a special edition of the DVD version installed chronologically, the true backbone of Memento is its destructive force and dissociative against conventional perceptions of the world of reality.
Leonard is the final thought, but ours is the doubt, the torment, because we like him we need to know about us, memories that tell us constantly from place to come from, what is our source, what we did, and why. The actions differ, and perhaps identify a man ... in the present time we are interested. But if we had not even the memory of this, how could we give value to those actions and putting them in some context that we identify with certainty?
And so we sail in doubt.

"We all need to remember that tell us who we are. And I'm no different."

Links:

Note: the links section for Memento is well-fed this time. I would especially point out the existence of an official website which is perhaps the best I have ever seen ever. Done in flash, the film offers a view from a different point, analyzing evidence about the murder of the wife of Leonard in the film are not seen, putting together the pieces here and there, interacting with a metatext view of its own. Visit the site, with background in the original soundtrack of the film, is a unique complement to the film itself.







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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

White Dots On Dogs Nose

Batman - The Dark Knight

(it. Batman - The Dark Knight)

color, USA / Hong Kong, 2008 , Christopher Nolan

Length: 152 min .

Genre: fantastic

Cast: Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Heath Ledger (The Joker) , Gary Oldman (Lieutenant James "Jim" Gordon), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent / Two-Face), Maggie Gyllenhall (Rachel Dawes), Michael Caine (Alfred Pennyworth), Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox), Eric Roberts (Maroni)

Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan

Music: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard

Photography: Wally Pfister

Editor: Lee Smith

Distribution: Warner Bros

I have not read many reviews of the last Christopher Nolan - why "The Dark Knight" is a film by Christopher Nolan, Batman on that one - just to be as impartial as possible, given my emotional about every work of Nolan. Entries are still coming, but I will try to disregard it. Already
immediately dall'incipit is understood that the hand behind the director is one of the last men
able to dream again on the big screen, to recreate a healthy taste of waiting after the enervating trailer, before the lights to come down into the total darkness of the room. You do not hear music triumph, nor that almost necessary aesthetic hedonism that permeates every film work devoted to represent the world media on a different superhero. No. .. This film begins quietly, almost softly, so as to create doubts about the goodness of man at the controls behind the wall from which the sound is projected.
a robbery. And how better starts a new chapter that will see Gotham overrun by a new wave of crime, feelings of hate, that by dark forces of darkness have only the twisted vision of the world ... no superpowers, this time, nothing out of ordinary things ... no, just the raw, violent, powerful force of human drives, pushed to the limit, beyond the limit. And the classic
robbery, crime, the starting point of any crime movie, it reveals the nature of this: yes, a detective, but atypical, precarious balance that relates between justice and crime, between right and wrong, or better, morally right and morally wrong, between those who are conscious of crossing the limit beyond which it is not easy to come back and who does it without realizing it. The robbery
surprising, for the way it is done, for the logical grounds for the chaotic freddeza plan behind it. And especially for those who are robbed.
And it soon becomes clear that behind the clown mask is not nothing but a clown, because we are the mask he wears, and this is the concept that underlies every kind of representation of the concept of superhero comics, which of course it also translates to the screen.
E 'here shows that in particular the core of film, through the knowledge of good and evil and the ability to recognize and distinguish or be confused by them: it is the Joker,
the twisted soul of this ballet of balance, which is unbalanced, which is chaotic and distorts every thing. It 's the total subversion that Christopher and Jonathan Nolan have worked long and intermibabile list of "bad" to cinema - a revolution that extends to other types of narrative, I daresay.
The Joker, whose human nature is rooted in the traditions and ancient mythology, is the trickster , being devoid of reason, the deceiver, what is the most feared man in every age, or betrayal, they can not fidare, l'impossibilità della logica, il non potersi fidare, dormire sonni tranquilli. E' l'ombra di Loki, della mitologia nordica, di Iktomi - il demone degli inganni - di quella Sioux, Anansi della cultura africana, un essere fatto d'ebbrezza, come Dioniso, incontrollabile, fuori da ogni moralità, e superiore per questo agli uomini che ne sono schiavi. E' un archetipo jungiano tra i più curiosi, è un essere da studiare, per capire le nostre paure.
Così è il Joker dei fratelli Nolan, folle, di una follia pura, che a volte vien voglia di cogliere, per liberarsi dai vincoli, per essere veramente liberi, come disse una volta qualcuno. E' questo il Joker, la sua vera anima, la sua vera essenza, la non-ragione, il non-essere. Ricorrente in lui è la storiella di come si è fatto le cicatrici che lo sfigurano in volto, dandogli quel tocco di "Uomo che ride" di Hugo, quel Gwynplaine dal quale giustamente è stato partorito per partenogenesi: è toccante la prima volta, rivelatrice la seconda, quando si capisce che sono entrambe false. Il Joker così non spiega la natura delle sue psicosi, non rivela nulla della sua mente, non ci mostra i suoi traumi infantili, a noi psicologi ormai improvvisati grazie a serie televisive e film che ce lo permettono. Il Joker, semplicemente, esiste al di là di ogni nostra capacità di comprensione, non ha identità - si cuce i vestiti da solo, le sue impronte digitali non portano a nulla, come il ladro di gems of wisdom story of Alfred - is not anything or anyone beyond his mask. There's nothing under that mask, he is his mask.
The Joker simply exists, and we find ourselves puzzled, because it is evil incarnate and deception, without explanation, no reason that could justify the actions, with no easy diagnosis. And then, chiediamocelo, why would anyone give us an explanation for the simple fact that it exists?
His concept of chaos goes beyond the ordinary madness of Nicholson, with his rhyme in the Burton film "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?". Here, Heath Ledger, who delivers to the legend his face and his name, with this monolithic interpretation, he founded a new concept of madness ... madness madness of being glossy.
Joker makes no sense, and he also understands when Batman confronts him with violence ... and his words hit him "all your strength is not needed here" ... because the power of the Joker in his head is fragmented, unpredictable in his ego, without reason, but can have only the minimum they need to go back to being free to be unreasonable.
And so, the trickster returns to its former glory by the mists of mythology and human culture, even to displace, to make the viewer uncertain, to terrorize with his endless nonsense.

All played on the balance, "The Dark Knight" also talks about the nuances of the border. Harvey Dent, spectacularly played by Aaron Eckhart, is the protagonist of many scenes in the eternal dance between crime and legality. It clears out the classrooms, clean up the streets, criticizes the methods of cleaning, even if it is ready to use them when the dirt goes beyond the confines of its enclosure. Dent is here at 90% as Dent, and not as showy and disastrous in Schumacher's film, which is always the opposite - the classic mistake of those who does not understand the depth of evil is treated as the philosophy of the visionaries behind Gotham, or to prevail on the person's character. For Dent, in total opposition to the Joker, you need an introduction, to understand the nature, the reasons to enjoy all the slow and agonizing fall in the uncomfortable role of Two-Face.
Harvey Two-Face, as he was called in the police station in the days when he militated in the specification. And so it becomes a two-headed monster, a Janus, a serving Justice of its own, an administrator with the same force that fought. Two-Face is the darkest shadow that is thrown when the bright light of Harvey Dent is confronted by the tragic reality of the world has chosen to live. Dent is a fundamental presence here, the second of the two sides of the film, and the whole construction of his rivals that of the Joker character, immense presence that threatens to obscure it. The detail of the coin, key, viene qui rivelato ironicamente come uno stratagemma che Dent usa per controllare il caso, o meglio, il caos, che invece il Joker vuole sguinzagliare. Ed è ironico ancora una volta che, a metamorfosi avvenuta, Due Facce adesso ha rimesso ordine nel caos, diversificando le due facce della moneta, sicchè è di nuovo possibile che essa possa decidere imparzialmente, senza che vincoli morali possano legarle le mani, come innaturalmente ha cercato di fare Dent, opponendosi al flusso naturale delle cose.
E' un messaggio forte anche questo. Dent cade perchè troppo grande e illuminato per essere seguito da meri mortali, quali sono i poliziotti corrotti sotto il comando dell'ignaro Gordon, che fuy avvisato da un monito dello stesso Dent riguardo their morality. Weak links in a chain of all human, to be redeemed by the choices made by people at the end of the film, by which time the Joker seemed to reveal a pattern of mass insanity ready to shoot at any sign of weakness of the social structure of the unjust nature of the world that is hostile to human destiny.

Batman and Bruce Wayne are just two characters aside here, contrary to what they were in the first chapter of the new series, used to make us understand his reasons. Here he is the only force opposing the tide of events that sweep the viewer, in a string of surprises and exciting scenes. Batman is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice in the end, not is to lose one's life, but rather to lose their identity, not so much by himself - as is now aware of what is and what he must do - but with others. He decides to take the dark path of those who struggle and is not paid, those who fight without being recognized, who does not do good for himself but because it must be done quietly, systematically, without thinking twice.
He transcends borders and is afraid of when it is brought on to the pitch of the Joker, who manipulates constantly throughout the film until the end, when the deception is revealed. But only half, of course, as the duality of the film needed.

We assist in the preparation of the third chapter, where Ledger is now no longer present - an idea that grew Nolan certainly make it an embodiment of the thorn in the side of Batman, as it should be: "We two are destined to fight forever" says the final scene, because he does not make sense in existing without a Batman to fight it and then give way to being what it is. The explosion of
Tumbler bears the marks of the birth of a more canonical future batmobile, Rachel's death is certainly a necessary prerequisite to a new female presence near Wayne, possibly Celina Catwoman. Gordon And, finally, he deserves his white hair by the Commissioner, the representative the largest category of its gal.
The excessive duration of the film is by no means excessive. It seems a dead end after the second time, when everything slows down almost to a stop ... but it is not necessary that the relaxation before the rope is pulled again with more force. A complex and layered film, with dozens of keys, bound by a remarkable detective story, which inevitably makes the most complex and mature film of its kind, indeed, even allows him to transcend the boundaries of its kind. So, as un'emblema of its nature, the entire history of crossing boundaries, marking the complete fidelity to the main message she wants to lead us.

Nolan signature work epoch-making, which moves at a pace personally marked, free of excess, perhaps too much for the target to which these features are usually directed and certainly beyond anything ever done in this regard. The tension is constant throughout the film and there are very few moments of relaxation, the apparent haven of peace, useful only to generate a strong contrast. The concern is continuous, oppressive, because the threat of madness, the unexpected, makes it unstable. You are no longer sure of anything, and often right in this, because it is chaos here that we wanted to represent. For this reason, all the cliches are forgotten, in the film in amounts so small as to be irrelevant, can completely transform American art to create a story on the big screen, and then bring up this incomprehensible to most confusing.
should be given away to the legend of cinema was dying a memorable scene, almost all with the Joker as a protagonist. His is the scene when, dressed as a nurse, stumbles out of the hospital, while it implodes and collapses on itself, and is upset because he does not want the last charge of exploding, even his memorable speeches in Dent hospital, the nature of chaos leveling, and Batman at the 'interrogation. " Unforgettable its system to clear the pencils. Some very good
scenes with Gordon are to be reported, such as the arrest of the mafia in the restaurant.
But this is a film in layers, like onion a bitter cry, to be studied, viewed and revised, full of inspired touches of class lighting. It should be enjoyed in its stock yellowish (but sometimes blue), which conveys to noir as the first chapter, too obvious to be enjoyed in the characterization. Go asssaporata every scene, every shot, because of note ... and each bar between the characters, who can also poke fun at himself - words dancing on an approach of dialogue truly remarkable. Strongly on this point of view, the presence of two heavyweights like Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine, who can to break the tension but also to provide the right point of view of someone who has seen many things and knows what are the tricks of life.

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, together are like Mohammed Ali and Foreman - hit hard and do well. The soundtrack is full of atmosphere, a veil of gloom descended on the whole affair, and departs from the usual superhero triumphant tune. E 'rather than a continuous live on the tension of the extraordinary, as is the case throughout the film.
Excellent incremental disturbing distortion of the instruments, during the scenes where the Joker is going to do something that we do not like, increasing the emotional tension to the breaking point. Perfect rhythm of storytelling musicale, che non mostra nessuna sbavatura, accompagnando le scene come un preciso meccanismo ad orologeria.

La scelta dei doppiatori italiani, a lungo criticata, è sicuramente opinabile ma non per questo sbagliata. Claudio Santamaria dà grande prova di sè, soprattutto nelle scene in cui opera come Batman. Le altre voci da segnalare sono sicuramente quelle di Aaron Eckart, di Gary Odlman, ma soprattutto la troppo criticata voce del Joker di Heath Ledger. Si tratta di quella di Adriano Giannini che, come ha giustamente fatto notare, fa del doppiaggio del Joker un affare di famiglia. Sito ufficiale del film e dell'edizione in dvd e bluray suo padre nei panni di Nicholson nei panni del Joker di una generazione fa, ora lui riprende il testimone, identity in this game successful. Her voice captures all the nuances of being a prey to emotional disturbances, which can not maintain a personality for more than ten seconds in a row. Impressive verve, considerable spectrum of emotions covered, URL furious scary, speaking softly and sweetly, the inevitable hysterical laughter. Giannini is perhaps not one hundred percent with the image of the young Joker, but that image makes it great and brings it back to him.

Awaiting the inevitable third installment, the remaining doubts about who will play the Joker, who will take up the scepter of inconvenient heir of Ledger ... in addition to the moral dilemmas raised by the film.
The choice remains emblematic of the sentence which would close this ideal stopover while tormented and twisted chapter or that doubt about what can happen "if the good survive long enough to become the villain."

Links :

official website of the film and the edition on DVD and Bluray:

The Dark Knight Official Website

Genius cryptic site that looks and functions very similar to the one already created for Memento. To visit:


Site metanarrative, which takes the shape of a web site dedicated to the campaign of Harvey Dent: