Day 8Reflections on: In Fabric (2018)This movie is super weird but in the best ways possible! T
Day 8Reflections on: In Fabric (2018)This movie is super weird but in the best ways possible! There are multiple commercials and montages of ads seen on TVs for the department store within the movie. They are all very stylized, dated and look almost like something from Look Around You. There are dozens of hilarious little jokes hidden within stills of promotional material and ad copy on old newspapers.Julian Barratt plays a boss who calls the protagonist into his office for lectures on handshakes and waves and refers to lunch as “feeding time”. He and his partner also gets off on hearing someone describe common ways a washing machine can break down.There are lots of hypnotic and beautiful shots of a red dress dramatically rippling in the wind.A department store clerk, who dresses like a Victorian widow, speaks in extremely flowery, verbosely poetic lines. She describes a catalog as “such an infinite document of finesse and joy”. She also directs a customer to a changing room (labelled “The Transformation Sphere”) to “coalesce into a simple union of wonder” with her dress. The music by Cavern of Anti-Matter (a Stereolab offshoot) is perfect.Characters visit a night club called Zin Zan’s.A mannequin wears a merkin.I loved this! -- source link
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