tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post7228984003774634216..comments2023-10-10T10:43:44.424-04:00Comments on cheaper than therapy: I'm Not ThereDJ Wordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14597363296679699935noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post-39463934205695290342007-12-19T09:54:00.000-05:002007-12-19T09:54:00.000-05:00yes! i've been waiting for this, rick. i think y...yes! i've been waiting for this, rick. i think you've nailed the critique... the one thing i would add, as a man formally trained in the cinematic arts, is that its true strength lies in the (un)treatment of its subject. The power of cinema lies not in its superficial link to realism (as in the photograph being closer to reality than a painting), but in the grace that arises like a phoenix when dead image rubs up against dead image. Robert Bresson reminds us the that the deader, or flatter, the image, the greater the transcendent disparity. I'm Not There is a film that knows its strengths as a film. Its self-reflexive approach creates a prismatic melange--a poetics of imagery, if you will. Werner Herzog says documentaries are the "truth of accountants". Ken Burns crunches numbers. Todd Haynes seems to know the difference between facts and (poetic) truth.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04376076349182122689noreply@blogger.com