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"This is the best, it's my life, this is my best friend. It's almost like knowing its weak spots are strong spots. I don't like to get sentimental about these things, but when you spend 30 years of your life with the same instrument, it's like a walking memory bank of your life there in your arms." — Rory Gallagher
As helpful as it can be to hear ‘I love you’ in times of hardship, ‘I trust you’ healed my heart right now.
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Edited 257d ago
Rated Loev 6/10
There's something incredibly shocking about being confronted with the passing of the actor playing a character you feel you know--that you feel is you in some ways. LOEV captures with piercingly uncomfortable awareness the conditional topology of love--its ebbs and flows, crests and troughs--and shows that it is in many ways not some abstract and external thing that one can possess, have, or own, but is a thing that each of us births and shapes, something whose definition changes when how we feel about ourselves--who we believe ourselves to be and what we believe others should feel about our actions--changes.Director Sudhanshu Saria displaces us in much the same way queerness disrupts and dislocates by intentionally avoiding characterization through outright description of his cast. What his characters do to and for each other, it appears, is more important than who they appear to be. The result is a layered film that relies primarily on touch and gesture as it depicts its two leads, jet-setting businessman Jai (Shiv Pandit) and musically timid Sahil (the late Dhruv Ganesh), attempting to find meaning in a relationship engraved with uncertainties of time and feeling.What the film does right is set up its premise: a brief weekend reunion between two men that could be (and seem to want to be) lovers. The problem is that neither has yet figured out how to bridge the gap between the realities of their attractions and the fancies of their imaginations. In this the film reveals through slow, almost stately plotting in its first third that a certain kind of projection or self-deception is required for love. Jai seems to be attracted not to Sahil, per se, but to his carefree nature and flights of whimsy, Sahil to Jai's order, gravity, and discipline. Along the way there's a great deal of bumbling around as both try to exist beyond their constructed facades and embrace their vulnerabilities and each other. All is well until it isn't, until whimsy intrudes on order and gravity steals what once held boundless inertia. The fantastical decelerates; reality sets in.There is a scene in this film that is unquestionably a rape scene. This is unique not only because many films feature or position rape as a source of transformation (particularly for female or feminized subjects), but because precious few situate rape within the context of a relationship or as an example of intimate partner violence (IPV). Fewer queer films acknowledge it at all. In a film whose structure and timetable suggests a conventional drama akin to Andrew Haigh's WEEKEND, it's significant that the film dares us to empathize with both the brutal and brutalized. In doing so it asks us to confront and think about violence and its continuities. Is the violence "intimate" or domestic if neither person lives with the other? If the best either can utter is "I like you" defensively? If neither person fits neatly into the expansive vagueness of "partner"? And then, most importantly: how and why do we participate in and enact similar violences, of vagueness and noncommunication?That a film can be this personal and metaphysical with the thinnest of plot set-ups is honestly invigorating. And it mostly succeeds thanks in no small part to the chemistry of Ganesh and Pandit. Where it falters, however, is in writing that in many cases--particularly with side characters--feels like it exists as filler. One might also see problems in its narrative turns in the third act, which feel reasonable, but which are not set up properly or which result in conclusions that are not entirely earned because it isn't clear what characters value and what motivates them. This lack of definition undermines some of the film's credibility. With that being said, I found myself appreciating the film's subtler moments and even its musical ones (the song running over the credits is particularly beautiful). The film makes legible the difficulties of translating feeling (attraction) and action (violence) into something intelligible. What we get is a story of love told through violation and shattering, that survives battering and fragmentation. We get LOEV.
Edited 40d ago
Rated The Invitation 6/10
What ever happened to Claire?
Edited 40d ago
Rated A Quiet Place Part II 5/10
It's enjoyable but mostly forgettable. We do learn some new things about the creatures and I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing of the world-building especially where other people are concerned, but this needed to do more and with quicker pacing. It's great that it has something to say about young people and maturation but it doesn't do nearly enough to carry on the character development that was EXACTINGLY earned in the first film. A movie where Emily Blunt goes on to find her daughter and leaves the strange man to take care of her son and baby would've been a lot more interesting to me, but I also understand how that presents the potential for discontinuity. It is passable and holds things together, which is more than most sequels can so, so I really hope Part III builds on and expands the stakes. Give us more direct conflicts with and between humans, PLEASE.
Edited 40d ago
Dateless Lively Heat Still To Endure
This ground..
an uneven place
Near the mountain
Jagged rocks like teeth
Naked
Scarred and scorched
Soaks up the drought
Though all is still,
all moves
See those clouds above the mountain?
Like memories
When we walk here, we must dance
With careful choreography
past and present
Or fall, still, still, still
–
Remember?
The boys in the neighborhood
Smashing my face into the ground
Pounding me into the dirt
Searching to find whatever
Wounds I owned
Or could offer up.
I looked at the powder on my hands
Scuffs, reddened with red streaks and
The brown stuff of soil.
They kneed me in the back
Spitting on what must have appeared
To them, a stiff unliving body
A shape familiar to them
–
Then on some other day
When my curly hair shined
kissed me
With candy breaths
And bacon and egg lives
As if nothing had ever transpired
As if time did not exist
As if memories were lost
As if the earth would dance
Like a child
heal itself
As all believed it would
If left to its own ways
–
August is crueler than April
Bare ground reveals
Dryness, truths, & harshness
the collective abjective gait
Our gangly limbs move
gather, acquire.
“You know now, you understand
That’s the way you’re supposed to walk.”
And this haze, this smoke
From the myriad fires
we kindle
We nurse
We attend to
Creeps into our lungs
“Oh, do not ask what is it”
Etherizes everyone
Into a dull wade
through shallow air.
And
Thick late summer
only promises
An upcoming layer of snow
Prayers to western rivers
–
And while dancing
In this present or past
I turn my palms upwards
Blood and dirt and all
feeling the sun’s heat
Scraping the surface
Like a reader of braille
On its way to its most
orange of hues, setting
on hills
The wavy horizons of
our furthest view
Wandering in sober desire
To be filled In,
by night..
A night…
Any night
Cobalt to licorice
–
Then
To the cool morning
Speaking
with eloquence, still
Still, still
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