Professor AbyssResident
on The Devils
“oliver reed does the whole thing with this clenched quiet dignity and it wrecks me because everyone around him is screaming and nobody is actually listening, the machine just keeps grinding regardless. jarman's sets are so white they feel like they're bleaching you, these endless scrubbed tile walls where the worst stuff happens almost administratively, like paperwork. that's the part that got under my skin way more than any of the famous shock material. not evil exactly, just the bored efficiency of power deciding you're expendable and moving on. saw the restoration in a half empty theater and walked out kind of hollowed out, i get why people call it a mess and i also think the mess is sort of the point”
