Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pure idol worship, with a Platonic ring to it. In Aesthetics and History, B.B. further explains that an art object is life-enhancing because it shows us a visual, but also, more profoundly, a spiritual ideal towards which we cannot fail to strive. That is, if we can train ourselves to view such art "with sympathy and understanding...
Italy, his chosen home, held more than merely visual delights for him. Despite his occasional arch references to Italy's modernization, he makes clear how much he understands and admires the Italian character, especially its Sicilian variant...
...octopus seems, superficially, to be judging the visual world around it as a dog or human would. But when its gravity-detecting statocyst is removed, it becomes virtually helpless. Apparently its system of telling an object's orientation is to keep its two eyes level, which it does with the help of the statocyst. If this organ is lost, the eyes get out of level, and the octopus no longer knows which way is up -or, for that matter, down. Humans and other higher vertebrates are not handicapped in this way. Their more elaborate brains make allowance...
Director Ray reveals moreover an order of poetic insight and a gift of visual anecdote that combine to produce some astonishing effects. In one scene the tenderness and bliss of a whole honeymoon are pressed into a moment when the young husband wakes in the same bed he had used as a bachelor and, listening to his bride as she cheerfully makes breakfast, lifts in silent wonder from beside his pillow one of her fallen hairpins...
Taken as a whole, Ray's film has the generosity and the prodigal variety of genius. Nevertheless, to moviegoers accustomed to the visual shorthand of Hollywood's clichés, it will probably seem sometimes to maunder in Oriental obscurities, to go the long way round to nowhere. Ray might well reply that life itself usually takes the same route and reaches the same destination, and this movie is obviously intended to be like life-not like other movies...