Song to Song (2017)
Mandatory ACL viewing. How does he do it. How does he be just like me for real?
83 songs used without a single note misplaced.
“I love the pain.. it feels like life” as a mom and son ride past on a Segway.
She understands my moviegoing but in her own antic fashion. There is a scene which shows the very neighborhood of the theater. Kate gives me a look.
Afterwords in the street, she looks around the neighborhood, “Yes, it is certified now.”
She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
After work I need to go to HEB and then the laundromat. Never been more excited to wander around the city.
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.