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The Cult of Incoherence |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART WATCH |
| Author: Lloyd Eby |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,047 Words, 7,195 Characters |
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Within the past several months I have seen a number of supposedly narrative feature films that suffered, to varying degrees, from incoherence. These films include Cyclo, from Vietnam, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; Small Faces, from Scotland; and Brother of Sleep, from Germany, Golden Globe nominee and the 1995 Academy Award entry from Germany.
Cyclo was the most problematic; its story line is quite unclear, and individual scenes did not meld into a whole, even though those individual scenes were often dazzling. Overall, this film is a confused and disjointed mess. Brother of Sleep had the clearest story line of these three, but there were breaks and inconsistencies in it. Small Faces was hard to follow because of i...
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... then there is no overriding denominator for coherence, and coherence depends on the particular artistic vision of the specific practitioner.
As both Dostoyevsky and Sartre noted, in their differing ways, when there is no God, then everything is possible. This possibility even includes accepting incoherence as the norm in film and other arts.
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