5' , Betacam SP, PAL, couleur, son
Collection: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
I like it. <- How benign those comments are in something that is an adaptation of the first line of the Beatles song ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’. If you know that when that song was released it was seen as a sexual interpretation as the gun is a metaphor (even though it came from a cover of a actual gun magazine).
In her 1986 reappraisal, I feel that it is a lack of being noticed as a woman, one that in opportunities to express herself emotionally, in a world that is predominantly masculine. She sees other women finding partners and in herself, feels that she must be lacking making her insecure as a child would.
As the observer, your annoyance is demonstrated by your uncomfortable replies, ones that alienate her even further so that you can't relate and question why and try to understand. It's an awesome work, that in so few minutes says so much in it's density. It really demonstrates the formulaic movie genre, having one hour and thirty minutes of something that amounts to nothing changing in your life.
KS.
