February 2012
154 posts
Simon
The first time we see Simon, he’s fainting. Physical weakness becomes a hallmark of his character, from passing out to throwing up to hallucinations and bloody noses. So it’s easy to think right off the bat that this kid is kind of weak. Simon is a timid but compassionate guy. A “skinny, vivid boy,” Simon’s got this innate goodness that comes out in his actions. He helps the littluns pick fruit to...
Some people look at a picture for thirty seconds, some for years. It doesn’t really matter because a picture is like life. You take out of life as much as you are able to take out of life, just as you take out of a picture as much as you can take out of a picture… - Oliviero Toscani
And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The Man: Do you ever wish you would die? Old Man: No. It’s foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these. - Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco
Brian Schnelle →
Disorder / Day of the Lords / Candidate / Insight / New Dawn Fades / She’s Lost Control / Shadowplay / Wilderness / Interzone / I Remember Nothing
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. - Karl Marx, Capital
It’s all in our minds, outside it looks naïve, daze and pointless.
Happiness is only real when shared. - Christopher McCandless
Dogme 1995 →
