http://blog.tharvan.org Blogging as photography: mental snapshots Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:23:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/d24186a0e9612d0e95456f132e1b9c00?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://blog.tharvan.org http://blog.tharvan.org/2006/04/05/broken-flowers-jarmusch/ http://blog.tharvan.org/2006/04/05/broken-flowers-jarmusch/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:16:00 +0000 tharvan http://tharvan.wordpress.com/2006/04/05/broken-flowers-jarmusch/ ]]> Ok just woke up after two hours watching Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers. Two lost hours. Two subtle hours. Full of people,  present, real people. It leaves you dangling. So real, weird. Still searching for moments, minutes passing in non real time. Seeing someone I feel comfortable with, in everyone of them. Yet some of them really disconserting, difficult to comprehend but not less familiar. Aesthetic pleasure, yada, yada, yada… Worth every second but… there is an end :-) Fucked up D night.

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Needless to say I loved the film!
PS: I have friend, who has more than one time argued, in front of me and others, that we have watched this film together back in 1997 when it was released. I was and am confident that today it’s the first time I watch this film. Either that, or I should start being worried about my mental state being close to Fred Madison’s one (the film hero).

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