Definitely not the kind of thing one should watch before going to bed! The language feels like when you're half awake and half asleep, in the stage before you wake fully from a strange dream. The accents seem very falsified, which is probably intentional(?)
Yes, this is part 1 of 5 parts. The complete video can be seen here http://www.ubu.com/film/trecartin_family.html (42 mins). The language remains acutely self-conscious throughout but becomes more deliciously so. The staginess seems to yield to pretty subtle performance of generation-specific colloquialism, still self-conscious but not stagey.
Definitely not the kind of thing one should watch before going to bed! The language feels like when you're half awake and half asleep, in the stage before you wake fully from a strange dream. The accents seem very falsified, which is probably intentional(?)
ReplyDeleteYes, this is part 1 of 5 parts. The complete video can be seen here http://www.ubu.com/film/trecartin_family.html (42 mins).
ReplyDeleteThe language remains acutely self-conscious throughout but becomes more deliciously so. The staginess seems to yield to pretty subtle performance of generation-specific colloquialism, still self-conscious but not stagey.
Here's a sure way to experience acid without even taking it..Yikes!
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