>>6100585>Thomas HardyYou are correct, I actually only know of it from a radio play adaptation hehe I have not read the novel itself. Some explanation / justification for the Victorian melodrama the dramatic sudden events etc arises from the format of serialisation, serial publication in weekly or biweekly magazines, both Dickens and Dostoyevsky etc wrote in this format (it sounds a bit similar to qst thread updates lol) hence at times the preposterous sudden occurrences
>>6092300>what is Love?>>6092602>>6092616>>6092618As I understand it, Thomas Hardy was not romantically very fulfilled. I wonder if this can be psychologically discerned from his poems hmmm
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NEUTRAL TONES
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,
— They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles solved years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro -
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing . . .
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
1867
>>6100137>>6100165>>6100173>>6100208Anyway, instead of scouring all these mainstream films like Harry Potter or Star Wars for tangential Freudian sex taboo allusions, sometimes it is almost a relief and refreshing when you watch some arthouse cinema and the director just comes out and says it. Here is pic related, The Holy Mountain (1973) by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film begins with him stripping two women nude and actually shaving their heads. He also shaves himself bald in the film, total commitment. There is a scene in the film where he seems to play Warhammer fantasy battle Lustria edition with skinks and slann, using actual live frogs dressed as aztecs on ziggurats which he blows up with gunpowder. This film was highly acclaimed at Cannes, I have no idea what any of it means
