tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481691725314537521.post2853880663427399751..comments2023-09-20T14:34:21.102+02:00Comments on Postcards from the Gods: Through a Glass Darkly - AlmeidaAndrew Haydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05568061302451610140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481691725314537521.post-86207085497563929682010-06-22T16:35:53.059+02:002010-06-22T16:35:53.059+02:00I'd say the main differences are threefold:
1...I'd say the main differences are threefold:<br /><br />1) This version is palpably more Karin-centred;<br />2) The mother isn't even a significant absence in the film;<br />3) There are a lot more words in this version.<br /><br />It's the last that strikes me as most odd, and I'm inclined to say culpable. We all know the canard about showing rather than telling, and theatre has a greater capacity for showing by dint of the pretty much inherent feeling of connection with another body sharing the same space and time... and yet this version puts so much more into words than into images. <br /><br />Fair enough, when the original images are Sven Nykvist's you've gotta go a fair way to be as eloquent.Ian Shuttleworthnoreply@blogger.com