Un uomo a metà

A film from a time when a white man in a suit symbolized the existence of Man, and the bourgeoisie could drown in a torn spirit without having to step into a reality that had long ago escaped it: but the split man does not lie therein, because our film man consistently reaches a point of excited catatonia from which no consequences can escape - he becomes whole in the power of his decision to become a powerless witness of his own life if the entirety of time takes hold of him. This is because a film that constantly moves forward and backward, unraveling from the reel only to immediately wind onto the wheel of time, which closes into the perfection of a circle, from within whose prison insanity screams the truth of the impossibility of escape, reminds us who are split that it is better to live our lives as split-souled androgynes. (2022.05.28)