@deanduncan63Saw #TheCompanyofStrangers, or #StrangersinGoodCompany. Author Carol Shields has productively compared a phallic …
… & an ovulatory approach to story. (In Dressing Up for the Carnival, 2000.) Both are tremendous, natural, & most beneficial …
… One, the direct, forceful, singleminded kind, devoted to striving & conflicts & the climaxes that resolve them …
… is disproportionately present in the books we read & the film we see! This delicate gem, this miracle, is absolutely & definitively …
… the other kind.
#StrangersinGoodCompany. I’ll leave it to you to imagine how an ovulatory story is conducted. Let’s add this: …
… SiGC is also a geriatric narrative, the which term I use w’ admiration unto reverence. It’s in the pace, the unfolding, the characterization …
… it’s in a certain form of peaceful resignation, as well as the unexpected & bracing bursts of wisdom & joy.
#StrangersinGoodCompany. Fascinating mix of, balance between real & fiction, notation & improvisation, truth & truth.
#StrangersinGoodCompany. The photographs! As beautiful a device, as beautiful a thing as you’ll ever see in a movie.