I agree with this 100% Stavrogyn. I love ' Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels' by Chantal Ackerman. It's boring for sure, and bound to disappoint if you're expecting Hitchcock, and I've heard people rant about how horrible it is, but if you take it in as a meditative experience, and consider all the things it's deliberately saying by having you experiencing time unfolding in an endless progression of laborious household tasks the way that the character does, it's quite a work of art to behold.Stavrogyn wrote:
I don't want to be too negative, but I have been hearing similar complaints my whole life regarding art I enjoy, and it just frustrates me. I especially don't like it when people complain that something is "boring", like boredom isn't a valid human emotion, and like everything has to be "fun" or "entertaining". The only thing I hear about Marcel Proust, whom I greatly admire and consider my favorite author, is that he's "boring", which yes, he is, but that is not the point; great art isn't supposed to merely be "fun", and I don't understand why so many people tend to think it should be.
Sorry for this petit rant, and going even further off-topic, but I enjoy the discussion we're having here.
For me, the Dougie stuff works as a counterbalance to Mr C, and obviously I feel the absence of Cooper and wanting Cooper to wake up, but isn't feeling the lack and loss of Cooper 's warmth and missing his personality and humanity throughout, part of the whole point of the work.