barracuda wrote:Nordic wrote:The whole image looks really fake, like "fake on purpose", painted on. What's that about? And the eyes look dead, for the same reason.
It almost looks to have been photoshopped to within a hair's breadth of the uncanny valley.
Yes, but no more so than any other face on any other Hollywood movie poster. They all look like that.
And I'm sure there's a rather famous painting or two centered upon that pose, but at the moment I'm at a loss to find them.
Well, hands-to-the-mouth and hands-to-the-cheeks are two different things, but since you posted this:
barracuda wrote:
...there is this:
I'm not sure why any graphic designer -- or any spook agency -- would want to invoke Munch in this specific context. We could speculate, though (and who am I to refrain?):
9/11 as
nameless existential horror = 9/11 as an event beyond all rational comprehension, an event that reduces us all (therefore) to empty-eyed horrified children, orphaned in the universe and, like, totally nonplussed. Luckily, Daddy, who loved us, has left a Key behind. This Key reveals, or rather confirms, what we knew all along: that Daddy loved us and was slaughtered by incomprehensible aliens. But we acquire this hard-won wisdom only after we have we have taken on the burden of
endless, painstaking, independent research - in other words, visited every fourth apartment in New York City. As a result, we grow up, i.e., we abandon all hope and accept the inevitable.
Admittedly, this is all wank. But then, so was the book. (I won't be watching the film.)
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
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