Taking It Slow
Apr. 7th, 2022 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy back and shoulders are telling me I've done enough heavy lifting for the time being, so now when I empty a box I'm no longer lumping it through the house before getting to grips with it but taking out the contents in modest handfuls while it sits in the garage where it was first dumped.
So many books. So many DVDs. Will I read or dip into the books again? Quite possibly. Will I watch the DVDs again? Most unlikely now that all those films are floating about on clouds and can be hooked down at will. DVDs are old technology. Books endure.
I have filled two bookcases with DVDs, leaving me with not enough space for all the books. This needs rethinking. The DVDs may one day have a value as quaint cultural artefacts- like the Victorian stereographs I once thought of collecting- but for the time being they're just clutter.
Two movies about men in lighthouses came out a short while ago. One was Welsh, starred unknown actors, was based on a true story, had a clear narrative and was bizarrely horrific but fascinating. The other I watched last night. It had money behind it, starred Robert Pattison and Willem Dafoe- and was incoherent and gratuitously nasty.
So many books. So many DVDs. Will I read or dip into the books again? Quite possibly. Will I watch the DVDs again? Most unlikely now that all those films are floating about on clouds and can be hooked down at will. DVDs are old technology. Books endure.
I have filled two bookcases with DVDs, leaving me with not enough space for all the books. This needs rethinking. The DVDs may one day have a value as quaint cultural artefacts- like the Victorian stereographs I once thought of collecting- but for the time being they're just clutter.
Two movies about men in lighthouses came out a short while ago. One was Welsh, starred unknown actors, was based on a true story, had a clear narrative and was bizarrely horrific but fascinating. The other I watched last night. It had money behind it, starred Robert Pattison and Willem Dafoe- and was incoherent and gratuitously nasty.
no subject
Date: 2022-04-07 09:00 am (UTC)Which was that? The last film I saw about lighthouses was The Vanishing (2018), which I liked very much.
There were images in The Lighthouse (2019) that I loved, but I did not love the film itself, which was a peculiar experience, since it contained so many elements that should have made it a shoo-in for me. It was sort of rotated orthagonally to anything I would have done with the material, or felt about the same symbols, or quoted for the same reasons. It did have the best mermaid I have seen on film in years.
no subject
Date: 2022-04-07 11:21 am (UTC)The other movie- the Welsh one- is also called The Lighthouse. It came out in 2016- three years before. It doesn't have mermaids but it cleaves closely to the story of the Smalls Lighthouse tragedy- and is very much better.
no subject
Date: 2022-04-07 06:09 pm (UTC)That was one of the orthagonal things!
It doesn't have mermaids but it cleaves closely to the story of the Smalls Lighthouse tragedy- and is very much better.
Cool. I will keep an eye out for it.