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By Moly · Posted
i watched this again, i felt more that the point of this movie is that magic requires exchange. maybe its an alchemical idea, that you get nothing if you give nothing, you have to put something in to get something out. like for example, it could be a sacrificial act, something could be lost in order to gain something else. that seems like a reasonably sound principle, far more sophisticated and realistic compared to that other silly idea we are all so familiar with that you get back what you put in. i couldn't help wondering if there was some concept here of Freudian development. very antique misogynistic type concept that a woman isn't fully developed without a man. but further to that, i appreciated the ending more this time. there seemed to be an ambiguity to the final scene with the lamp posts that i didn't notice last time. i felt as though it wasnt entirely clear whether it was Nicky who was extinguishing all the lights, maybe he was just surprised and observing. or maybe i just imagined that ambiguity. -
By Solanaceae · Posted
I too found it to be 'a little masterpiece.' Much of his work has a bit of pagan flare, but none quite so overtly I'd say. As far as the criticism, I think these are probably more people expecting that artists will keep producing more of the same, without taking into consideration that people grow, evolve, and change, and therefore so does their work. It's a deviation from his early work, that's for sure. It's my personal favourite of his that I have read, for whatever that is worth. -
By Moly · Posted
it absolutely got me out of bed every morning all month!! i really appreciated how upside-down everything was. just taking the most immediately obvious thing we learn in the first chapter, a story about magical people - but the magical people are not the protagonists, its told from the perspective of their familiars. how weird is that?! completely topsy turvy and it stayed that way right to the end. it was as though it said "as above, so below" without actually saying that. it said that even in the way it was told, like as a story that could be comforting for a teenager (still enough genuine horror to be scary), but the more you look the more you see. i thought it showed amazing mastery of genre all the way through, all the philosophy all lined up perfectly with the style and the form it took. it was a real little masterpiece it reminded me of Tolkien, how Tolkien's narratives are consistently progressively eradicating magic from the world, elves evacuating and the magical objects destroyed etc, this book was philosophically the OPPOSITE of that if that makes sense. it went deep into certain issues about magic and it stayed there. it seemed very pagan to me. im not saying the author was pagan but he treated the topic seriously and respectfully on its own terms. i think it was the last novel he wrote? i read somewhere some critic said that his earliest work is regarded as his best and he didnt live up to the promise of that early work, this novel makes me think that he would have laughed so hard at that criticism.
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