Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by sjb (A) on March 19, 2007 at 17:18:52

In Reply to: "post facto ascribed subtexts" posted by afilado on March 19, 2007 at 11:30:00:

It hardly qualifies as "art" but, like many people, I wrote a fair amount when I was younger (mostly, mostly bad poetry) and to this day there are times when I look back on some of it and think... "Oh! That's what that meant!!" And that might change multiple times with the same piece.

Also, I work with, for and around a lot of creative people (and a lot of director's) and it's funny to see say a music video that eventually gets posted on youtube and to read people's comments about what they think it's about or what the references might be, etc. and they're almost always different from what the director was thinking (or at least what was shared about the thinking).

About Wild Strawberries... the commentary track mentioned that the dreams were replications of IB's own dreams (that he had a knack for remembering them in detail) which could well mean that even as he incorporated them he didn't REALLY know what they meant.

Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.