Vive L'Amour

everything i thought about this film has already been said somewhere on here. still i want to remark that 1) what i wrote yesterday about the silence of goodbye dragon inn applies for this film in a way; 2) in addition to that this film portrays physical senses with a striking equity to them - you taste it touch it hear it see it smell it hear it in equally important parts. it works to build very human sensations that focus on the individual and their feeling of a body – there goes an overwhelming lust too. 3) this construction of subjectivity through a bodily experience is extremely detailed and until the very end more direct than a strictly sentimental one (that weeping was quite physical as well). 4) how ridiculous and how painful it is then, that in the face of this the three characters interact with one another as if the other was an object, so much so that it is interchangeable with any otherness animate and inanimate. loneliness as a shared space in the impossibility of acknowledging an individuality outside of one's own. the physical struggles to do so. the perception of loneliness in a body clinging to another assuming it is empty. ultimately, i cannot blame them as, at times, i too feel so intensely i could think i am the only one feeling anything whatsoever