Word: visioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Tyrol," he was killed in action, dying embittered by the reality of war that surrounded him. Marc's horses, those wild and elegant and utterly essential beasts, cannot, then, be seen without a certain sense of poignancy; for all their vital strength, they are part of a very fragile vision. They provide a glimpse into an idyllic world, a universe made infinitely desirable by its unattainability...
...idea was to consistently present even more than a story, even more than a movie about particular characters, almost like a worldview, almost like a kind of overarching, I don't want to say vision, that sounds so pretentious, but almost like a vision of what late 20th-century industrial American life is like. Because it's such a dying part of the economy-that part of New York is almost no longer. So I had wanted to give it almost a requiem feel about it, for lack of a better way of putting...
...David Lynch's Blue Velvet (the rapturous weirdness of small-town life) and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (a tough girl's narration, set to gorgeous cinematography). But this kid doesn't need famous parents. It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision. And it has, like each of the children in it, a restless beauty that haunts their lives and the viewer's heart...
...hippies. The entire dark side of '60s is on display: chaos and mindless anarchy have rushed into the void cleared by the vague promise of freedom. The audiences seen here are the dark doppelgangers of Woodstock. Every face looks programmed and every movement emotionless, like a Stepford Wives vision of the hippiedom. Along with the Charles Manson bloodbath four months earlier, Altamont revealed the antipode of Woodstock's blissed-out flower children-the negative space on the other side of the spaces of freedom that the '60s opened...
...this is what Gimme Shelter ultimately attempts to provide: a vision of us looking at ourselves, a meta-meditation on what it means to be present and what it means to watch. At once it tries to provide footage of a defining historical moment and question what that footage means. The film begins with Jagger sneering to a New York crowd, "We're gonna have a look at you. We're gonna see how beautiful you are." It's the film's mission statement, the launching pad into an ambitious documentary that draws viewers into the complex intersection of culture...