Supreme Minimalism Will Overtake You

The Wind-Up Bird - BecomeSomeone put together a DVD called "You Did What?", which was a compilation of every great delayed reaction in the history of film. Many of the clips also featured the calm acknowledgment or phatic phrase that prefaced the overreaction, so, for example, in one scene, a man is shown riding in the passenger seat of a car, adjusting his seat belt, saying, "Oh, okay, I've got you," and after a long beat, a beat of perhaps three minutes, during which the only diegetic sound is the sound of the wind rushing into the open car windows and the only sight within frame is the seat-belt man's relaxed face, the man's face slowly distorts itself into a rictus of total astonishment, over the course of maybe a minute and a half, an expression that suggests something like a stone gargoyle trying to hold in a sneeze. The mental cascade of realization finally over, the seat-belt man (still holding the expression on his face) turns to the driver and says, at the top of his voice, "You put it where?". This by itself wouldn't be so remarkable, but this cycle, following the format above, repeats another five times, with the driver giving more and more predictable answers, and the seat-belt man reacting in ever more hysterical ways.[BUY Whips]

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