Friday 28 August 2009

Something for the weekend


Liquid Sky (1983)




In her book The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism Wendy Steiner opines that Liquid Sky is a concise presentation of postmodern concerns. She writes: Here we have all the ingredients of the postmodern romance: parody; voyeurism; fetishism; a pastiche of modes, stylistic levels and esthetic allusions; simultaneous humor and insensitivity about serious issues like the Holocaust, rape, and feminism; the collapse of binary oppositions, as with identical male and female models; the equation of art with assault; the inclusion of the audience in the action and therefore in the ethical responsibility for what is represented; and the outrageous cost of ecstasy.


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3 comments:

Lucinda said...

Liquid Sky is a classic. Anne Carlisle as Margaret and Jimmy is fabulous. For a time it was really hard to find, but DVD's are out there.

Thombeau said...

A classic, and major part of my younger years...

Seraph + Splendor said...

The video clip is sublime…we are having a flashback and it is not altogether unpleasant…
S+S