tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post9022203057086036157..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: TeoremaKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-3065006819837950452007-12-15T18:24:00.000+00:002007-12-15T18:24:00.000+00:00"Ultimately one of the aims of the film is to reco..."Ultimately one of the aims of the film is to reconcile these apparent contradictions or to show that they are not as contradictory as they appear on surface"......I agree entirely with your comments. And with your comparison with Dreyer, Bresson etc.<BR/>Pasolini brings to his complexities the realism of lives, real lives, and a suffocating intellectual intensity, while as the others, equally passionate rely on more instinctual or more predictable dilemmas.<BR/><BR/>Spiritual blasphemy is more realistic than pure hedonism or a total state of denial. If I overcome my torpor, I will post an extract from Heretical Empiricism, a book that I have previously recommended.<BR/>btw, I read your post on Teorema months back.Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-82702409637353935942007-12-15T02:10:00.000+00:002007-12-15T02:10:00.000+00:00I am a huge fan of this film, as you probably alre...I am a huge fan of this film, as you probably already know. What I love most about it is its expression of a truly unique religious sensibility, which I don't think has any parallel, not just in cinema but possibly even in literature and other arts. Dreyer, Bresson, Bergman all are deeply interested in religion but there is something predictable (though still deeply stirring) about their treatment of this subject - moral choices, existentialism, freedom etc but not so with Pasolini. It is a deeply personal vision, far removed from any school of thought. <BR/><BR/>With Pasolini it is almost impossible to define what he is trying to do without taking recourse to contradictory phrases. a recent retrospective in new york of his films was called "Heretical Epiphanies" somewhere else I came across "spiritual blasphemy." Ultimately one of the aims of the film is to reconcile these apparent contradictions or to show that they are not as contradictory as they appear on surface. they are often deeply linked - sex, desire, religious longing, artistic spirit, miracle, political utopia there are hidden connections which bind all of these things.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.com