What's a harbinger? -NT-

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: : no one will even care about. but i will blast off on anyway, and : probably for much longer than anyone here will read. or at least like : my students do - skim.... : : We all here love Kevin's work. In fact, he could show us some avant : garde bullshit of him and Walt eating Diggem Smacks for three : minutes and a lot or people here would call him a "geniusly : postmodern" film..maker : : .oh well, hes a regular Wim Wenders . . but still : : I am not comfortable, at least as a fan, artist wanna-be, and (for lack : of a better term) "literary analyst" all of his references to his films : being about dicks and farts. He claims that is all he writes many : times. And while J&SBSB is a real homosexual-referenced laden : cliché big ass dick and fart extravaganza . . . i still love it...as a fan of : VA...i like seeing all the people from all the movies. I get off on it in a : fan boy sort of way. : : However, if I could return to what has prompted me to post this : rather laborious message. I used to, and to some degree still, think : that Clerks was his best script . . .not “work” mind you as a director, : but in terms of a story laced with dick and pussy humor that has also : has a more universal message. By that I mean this: : : Yes, Amy and Dogma were highly jam packed with meaning that : Mallrats and J&SBSB lacks. But Clerks still has more of a universal : appeal that stretches into the genres of film and writing in general. : What I mean is (I wonder how many are still reading this) the end : monologues by Randal and Dante drive into the message of free will : and volition in society. Of an individual being able to create one’s : own certainty in a highly fragmented and post-modern society while : still being able to keep one’s frame of reference in today for the most : part, even if it contains a love of the pastiche’. : : And while the main characters are still the proverbial white : Anglo-Saxon male "types" I still think that he manages to provide a : more meaningful message of the ability for people to transcend the : realm of the Cartesian subject and still find the means to navigate the : uncertain realms of the “chaos theory” of reality that even Borges : would enjoy if not spit on. In other words. the signification that : Randal provides to Dante is key to the thematic meaning of Clerks. : : My point is that, I wish, and I know I can shit in my left hand and wish : with my right to see which hand fills the fastest on this, that at least : he could return his writing back to those themes. Maybe he does with : Jersey Girl . . .i don’t know, but the supposed "college" words in : Clerks as he as called them, are nothing but. They ultimately provide : a frame of reference ofr the viewers to find meaning in a text that has : layers of meaning inside of it like a cheap burrito. The thing is, I know : that he is aware of these factors and has demonstrated the ability as : a writer and artist to conceive of such matters. therefore he can do it : again. And to a degree, the Flying Car is a harbinger, if not a : reference back to what has been done .. In short...what the fuck did I : just say???? : : -Eso

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