26 June 2004
synch-ro-nicity!
Last night I watched Repo man again. And then (”UND DANN”, you could say) I watched it again. I didn’t get to bed until after 2am. Say what you will, but it’s not the greatest movie ever made, but it is quite interesting. Until I listened to the commentary I didn’t know all that much about the film. Listen to most people and they’ll talk about the quotable lines or the generic foods or the glowing, flying Chevy Malibu, but nobody mentions that the same guy ran the cameras as Wim Wenders’s 1976 classic Kings of the road (about which I once wrote). You know, Robby Müller. He also cinematographed most all of Wenders’s works, a lot of Jim Jarmusch and even some for Peter Bogdanovich here and there. And somewhere along the way he did this little picture with a bloke not too long out of film school named Alex Cox. So, that’s interesting. The fact that the only two companies that were willing to place their products were the supermarket and the pine air-freshener corporation is interesting. It’s all interesting, so I say, in that way of the inevitable brown noser incapable of deep discussion in every discussion group or seminar.
But anyway, I watched the movie twice. There was something there that mattered, but I started watching Run Lola Run when I started writing this and now it’s ending, and I haven’t really gotten anywhere. This, I suppose, explains the meandering of the narrative as well as the “UND DANN” back at the beginning. But endings are what matter, and oddly enough both Repo man and Lola Rennt have credits that scroll from top to bottom instead of the conventional bottom to top. Synch-ro-nicity!
If ever I were to become a copycat comic, I think that would be my cheesy catchphrase. Little coincidences and serendipitous sorts of things pop out at me all over the place, it seems. I was chatting with a longtime friend about books to read, and she pointed me at two trilogies by Lynn Flewelling and Anne Bishop. Checking for them at the local lending library, I noticed that both trilogies are written with the book titles in the same order alphabetically as chronologically. Both of them. Synch-ro-nicity!
We also watched Big fish, but I’ve got nothing to say about that right now.