Noooooooooo !!!!
LJ ate my post!
I've been writing a review on the two last episodes of Lost for an hour, and everything is gone! I'm so frustrated and angry right now it's not even funny.
I digressed a lot and was in the middle of interpretating Lost through the Ultraist doctrine, in which the art of metaphor rules, and drawing parallels with Borges' works that are filled with miracles and fantasmagories when my post vanished.
I'm too mad at myself to do it again. That sucks. But here are some thoughts that I'm now throwing in a hurry.
I liked "Dave" and "SOS" even though concerning" Dave", I prefered "Normal Again" ( I connected "Dave" to not only BTVS but also Donnie Darko and Cinderella because of the lost slipper!) and there were again things that disappointed me (the soooo expected twist about the photograph for instance) and annoyed me (Kate and Jack in the net...Could they write that pairing with more cliché?).
I liked how Henry Gale kept playing Locke and pushing his button. What a great villain he is! Oh and I loved the few scenes Locke had, as usual. I love everything Locke actually.
Above all in "SOS", I really liked Bernard.
He moved me and I wanted to kiss him when he told Eko he liked him better when he hit people with his big stick!
Also I thought that Bernard/Rose was really very gracefully written.
In my previous and very long entry that you will never see, I explained that B/R worked in couterpoint with Jin/Sun. Also that Bernard/Rose sounds very medieval, for many reasons including their names, which I loved of course. Beranard the old bachelor found his rose eventually and wanted to be her knight in shining armour.
BTW I quoted Bernard of Morlaix from his De Contemptu Mundi :
"Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.".
A quote that Umberto Eco borrowed at the end of The Name of the Rose, and that kind of started the medieval topic of the woman-rose that Villon, Ronsard, Rilke and others overused afterwards.
When things fade away, it's names that remain and that we cling to. Just like Swayer....
I still want to stick to my theory about a mass coma caused by the crash and inducing a collective mental projection that made up the island. But was even there a crash and a plane to begin with? Can we trust the flashbacks to be real flashbacks? One could wonder if what we saw on screen did happen before the island. Is "before" even accurate?
Does it matter?
Once more, I wonder if there's any mystery to solve. Maybe the whole thing just belongs to a poetic licence.
I leave you with this extract from The Unbending Rose by Jorge Luis Borges:
« Tu vaga esfera está en mi mano. El tiempo
nos encorva a los dos y nos ignora
En esta tarde de un jardín perdido
Tu leve peso es húmedo en el aire
[...]
Rosa profunda, ilimitada, íntima,
Que el Señor mostrará a mis ojos muertos »
Un jardin perdido...A lost garden is exactly what Eko thinks he has found.
In that garden it makes sense that Rose found her place, and she couldn't leave it because otherwise she would fade.
I've been writing a review on the two last episodes of Lost for an hour, and everything is gone! I'm so frustrated and angry right now it's not even funny.
I digressed a lot and was in the middle of interpretating Lost through the Ultraist doctrine, in which the art of metaphor rules, and drawing parallels with Borges' works that are filled with miracles and fantasmagories when my post vanished.
I'm too mad at myself to do it again. That sucks. But here are some thoughts that I'm now throwing in a hurry.
I liked "Dave" and "SOS" even though concerning" Dave", I prefered "Normal Again" ( I connected "Dave" to not only BTVS but also Donnie Darko and Cinderella because of the lost slipper!) and there were again things that disappointed me (the soooo expected twist about the photograph for instance) and annoyed me (Kate and Jack in the net...Could they write that pairing with more cliché?).
I liked how Henry Gale kept playing Locke and pushing his button. What a great villain he is! Oh and I loved the few scenes Locke had, as usual. I love everything Locke actually.
Above all in "SOS", I really liked Bernard.
He moved me and I wanted to kiss him when he told Eko he liked him better when he hit people with his big stick!
Also I thought that Bernard/Rose was really very gracefully written.
In my previous and very long entry that you will never see, I explained that B/R worked in couterpoint with Jin/Sun. Also that Bernard/Rose sounds very medieval, for many reasons including their names, which I loved of course. Beranard the old bachelor found his rose eventually and wanted to be her knight in shining armour.
BTW I quoted Bernard of Morlaix from his De Contemptu Mundi :
"Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.".
A quote that Umberto Eco borrowed at the end of The Name of the Rose, and that kind of started the medieval topic of the woman-rose that Villon, Ronsard, Rilke and others overused afterwards.
When things fade away, it's names that remain and that we cling to. Just like Swayer....
I still want to stick to my theory about a mass coma caused by the crash and inducing a collective mental projection that made up the island. But was even there a crash and a plane to begin with? Can we trust the flashbacks to be real flashbacks? One could wonder if what we saw on screen did happen before the island. Is "before" even accurate?
Does it matter?
Once more, I wonder if there's any mystery to solve. Maybe the whole thing just belongs to a poetic licence.
I leave you with this extract from The Unbending Rose by Jorge Luis Borges:
« Tu vaga esfera está en mi mano. El tiempo
nos encorva a los dos y nos ignora
En esta tarde de un jardín perdido
Tu leve peso es húmedo en el aire
[...]
Rosa profunda, ilimitada, íntima,
Que el Señor mostrará a mis ojos muertos »
Un jardin perdido...A lost garden is exactly what Eko thinks he has found.
In that garden it makes sense that Rose found her place, and she couldn't leave it because otherwise she would fade.