Short Film: Gas Man, by L Ramsey
Notes: Lots of extreme close ups, very intimate
Very tactile, claustrophobic. Feels right in the action; creates the impression of a memory.
Formative experience for Lynn, a young girl, who realises she has a half sister. Lynn becomes very angry with the other girl when she sits on her dad's knee. Lynn knows there's something wrong, something her father is hiding.
Objective Correlative:
A term introduced by T.S Eliot in his essay “Hamlet and His Problems” (1919). Eliot observes that there is something in Hamlet which Shakespeare cannot “drag into the light, contemplate, or manipulate into art” , at least not in the same way that he can with Othello's jealousy, or Coriolanus' pride. He goes on to deduce that “the only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an ‘objective correlative'; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in a sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.” (Selected Essays, [London: Faber and Faber, ...)
The dodgy Santa works as a metaphor for the unsavory situation.
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