WEEK 19

19. WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS, dir. MIKIO NARUSE, 1960

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when one fights nature
one fights
himself
make the sand work for you, not against you
when the earth moves
it moves us
as well
when we fight blindly
the desires of dirt, water, sand and fire
we fight eachother and
ourselves
as well.
you can't fight it!
when you work with it
you learn who you are and
you become
more than you were before
and this world of dust is elevated,
too;
when you fight it
you make it evil
and you are reduced to nothing more than a bug
pinned to paper or
confined to a jar.
woman in the dunes
blew blew blew me
away.
i am still lost in just the visuals,
from the breathtaking opening credits of
black lines and black lines, through to the end,
let alone the music, things said,
and everything everything everything else.
if i was a gymnast
i would do somersaults and backflips
to see this movie
again
and again
and again.
--
living here is like building a house
on water when a boat
makes more sense...
it has to be a house or nothing
at all...
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when i rented woman in the dunes from the video store
when a woman ascends the stairs was sitting
beside it on the shelf
and caught my eye.
similar titles.
this time the city
will be the star,
and how will it be different
from the sand?