I really disliked this scene at first when I started to watch and rewatch this film.
I still dislike this scene. I tend to dislike trippy scenes in general, and the brutality of this particular one makes me uncomfortable. Part of it might be how it feels like the obligatory drug/rock and roll movie trip. Very film school, as you say. That's very interesting about the HCR passage; I hadn't heard that. I guess it comes down how much faith we have in Bruce as a director. I think this scene could very easily be dismissed extraneous, but on a personal level, I'm so desperate for any kind of answers or insight that I'll take whatever I can get.
I had no careful, rationally thought out way to consider the acid trip sequence, even after I started paying attention to it. I just started watching it on a very open, emotional level.
In the end, I think that's how we're suppose to view it. I can help I'm missing the forest because of the trees, when I break something like this down and force meaning onto it. Oh well, at least it keeps me busy.
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Date: 2007-11-22 04:46 pm (UTC)I still dislike this scene. I tend to dislike trippy scenes in general, and the brutality of this particular one makes me uncomfortable. Part of it might be how it feels like the obligatory drug/rock and roll movie trip. Very film school, as you say. That's very interesting about the HCR passage; I hadn't heard that. I guess it comes down how much faith we have in Bruce as a director. I think this scene could very easily be dismissed extraneous, but on a personal level, I'm so desperate for any kind of answers or insight that I'll take whatever I can get.
I had no careful, rationally thought out way to consider the acid trip sequence, even after I started paying attention to it. I just started watching it on a very open, emotional level.
In the end, I think that's how we're suppose to view it. I can help I'm missing the forest because of the trees, when I break something like this down and force meaning onto it. Oh well, at least it keeps me busy.