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Mark Netter <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:21:16 -0500
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What I found most interesting about the film, and highly compelling, was how
it showed this woman talking to God, but shot in a documentary fashion so
that it made no judgements at all as to whether she was actually making that
communication of not, if it might be just the expression of her inner arc.
 At one point she even looks into the camera after a conversation, which felt
pretty ballsy to me.  Of course, the ending might indicate that she was
indeed cosmically connected, but I also saw the bells as just being there for
the audience, not really being seen by the characters, the director's visual
coda to (and reward for) the grueling experience.
 
Mark Netter
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