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Quote from: Scrooby on March 01, 2024, 08:36:56 AMAlana holds the mirror. Behavior reveals Self. If we see ourselves, if we think about our interaction with others, hopefully we will learn from ourselves, and evolve toward betterment.
Alana holds the mirror. Alana will bring "himself" out.*
Alana. What is this "Say everything twice"?
A charming confirmation of chemistry.
Quote from: Scrooby on March 01, 2024, 08:36:56 AMSequence 1.
The first sequence builds to—discovers itself to be—the momentous backstory to a photograph—the student yearbook photograph.
We, the audience, privileged as gods, observing from a reflective vantage point, see the Situation, and understand Gary's photo as forever suffused with Alana.*
Gary. This is fate! . . . Our roads took us here.
—light-hearted recollection of heavy Sophoclean application in TWBB and Phantom Thread.*
The continuous long shot in the gym while students pass by (4:18–5:33) recalls the iconic kissing in daytime Hawaii in PDL.*
Alana's introduced walking alongside sprinkler streams of glistening water. Life-giving freshness and refreshment.*
Alana wearing sky-blue and cloud-white.
Gary's shirt—like an interference pattern; strata;—complexity. White trousers pretty-much match Alana's shorts. (An omen?)*
Encouragement.
Photographer. Chin up. Chin up.
—(e.g. light-hearted) recollection of Cyril's "Chin up." (49:13)*
"F*** me."
Gary's first line? May we take it as such?
A voice-over, a thought, a recollection—
An invocation, an invitation, admission of incompleteness—
Addressing himself.*
Alana holds the mirror. Behavior reveals Self. If we see ourselves, if we think about our interaction with others, hopefully we will learn from ourselves, and evolve toward betterment.
Alana holds the mirror. Alana will bring "himself" out.*
Alana. What is this "Say everything twice"?
A charming confirmation of chemistry.*
Alana. You're such an actor, you're such an actor.
recalls, in a general way,
De Niro. You're a good actress, you know that? Good f***ing actress.
Casino (1995), 2:09:18*
Humor of woman undercutting man—classic banter of 1930s Hollywood comedies.
En route, finally, hopefully, to smart marriage : simultaneous encouragement 24/7.*
Alana. Kid.
Welles. This is the biggest electric train set a boy ever had!
Being There (1979) : You're always gonna be a little boy, ain't ya? (10:26)*
The repetition of "Convenient within my plans" suggests Alana "measures out her life with coffee spoons."*
Alana. Your name's Valentine?
An omen!*
Photographer. Turn your legs around. Not too down. Look up, look up.
—humorous metatheatrical awareness : the treadmill of turning intangible emotion into visual cues.*
Gary. Man. I like that.
Photographer. Like a tiger.*
"Oh my god. I'm coughing."
Sync : What happens with some cinemagoers who have just entered into the auditorium after a tremendous bong load.*
Sync at the sink
"Oh my god. I'm coughing."
Humorous juxtaposition
between
Invocation to Creator (suitable for opening a narrative)
/
quotidian idleness.