I am the Human Drug...
Beware the water. The water is poisoned. The water I drink is the water I love. David is the water that Harvey drinks. They all drink the water. The Water is just the most important resource, other than the air. It's not drugs, specifically--it's the trip itself, the whole trip. It's why they do the drugs, it's why Wendy shoplifts and has sex with strange men, it's why Clyde does daredevil stunts, it's why they chase down ghost stories, etc. etc. etc. -- It's why they risk...
Characters want something... The character will always take what seems to them as the absolute minimal action necessary in order to achieve their goal. The story is made in the gap between expectation and result.
"You know Harvey, sometimes it really scares me: I get a fear right here." He pointed to his diaphragm. "Right in this hollow place that seems like it's holding you together."
"I know that place David."
First realizations of one's own mortality, fears of going to Hell when you die...
"Get out of my mind!"
"Me?"
"No, no, no, Harvey. You can stay. I think I just saw God. Did you know he has a thousand eyeballs?"
Harvey laughed. "There's no God in here, David."
"Maybe it wasn't God then..."
David starts talking about the presence in the Love Den scaring the shit out of him... he doesn't like it... it gives him nightmares... they ask him why he doesn't sleep in a different room... why doesn't he leave the Love Den if it keeps scaring him... He can't leave. He can't leave the Love Den. He's anchored there.
Believing in Santa Claus... Believing in Lies... The world just believes in lies. I'm not sayin' I disagree with you, I'm just playing devil's advocate. Aliens built the pyramids. Burning bush. Moses following a UFO through the desert, helping out with miracles, putting on the whole charade.
"Um, um, um... My name is Maggie."
"And how old are you Maggie?"
"I'm five and a half years old, going on six."
"Wow! Five and a half! You're almost a big girl now."
David laughed a spasmodic childish blushing laugh... "My uncle says when I grow up I'm going to be 'stunning.' I like my uncle. He touches me in a secret place."
The film is motion... like music is sound passing with time... film is picture and sound, both passing in time like music...
The experience of a film is in you the way the words of a book are in you. It is real to some viewers. To others it is merely a moving image. A picture which may hold no meaning or significance.
David holds his world together. Each of them lives in a personal imaginary world. They surrender themselves partially to David's world because he is their liberator, in a sense. The freedom they have living at his house allows them to do just about anything they please and they have a safe, private place where they can do it. Clyde makes plenty of money dealing drugs. Harvey doesn't really make a lot of money w/out a job. He's just kind of hanging out there without money, doing little chores for his relatives?, etc. Not taking life seriously. Their worlds are falling apart anyways. David fills in the gaps with his own world. He doesn't want to be alone.
David has a vision of a world where strange people can be themselves...
Harvey's audience--he always needs them.
Blaming drugs -- needing them, them affecting you, bringing you down, can't stop taking them, just relax and stop whining...
Personal freedoms... The government can do nothing about a broken heart...
Carefree, stubborn, childish, lovable, haunted,
Performers... everyone performs a task, whether it be drug dealing, in which you're trying to attract the right kind of attention, or what Harvey does, which is just his way of being... he's not a performer specifically, he's just a funny guy that everybody likes, so they hang out with him, follow him, because they want to laugh...
Paladium
The progression of David's mind...
At first, David may as well not be crazy. Harvey isn't worried, so that's what's important.
David has always been like this: weird, but not dangerous.
They worry about him, but only because he makes them nervous for that strange reason, the awkward silences, the avoiding eye contact, the strange things he says...
"David is just pretending. He did this even before... (even before his parents killed each other) ... in high school, David was always acting and he was always really good at it. He was in all the plays and shit. Me and him would prank people with his performances you know? He was great."
Sometimes David seems out of control.
Sometimes it seems like David is talking about hurting himself.
Sometimes David doesn't answer to his own name. -- He's gone crazy. He refuses to acknowledge that "David" even exists. He says he killed David. David is dead.
Sometimes David goes too far. We all go too far sometimes, so I forgive him.
Look, if you can't take it then you gotta get out. That's just how David rolls. Heavy.
David has been particularly scatterbrained lately, talking gibberish, he struggles to get even simple points across, he forgets what things are, simple objects...
David has these sudden emotional swings where he's super happy or super unhappy all of a sudden...
Sometimes, I'm talking to David, and I'm serious, I really need to talk to him, but it's like he won't just put it down and talk to me, he's got to stay in character... he can't break character, otherwise he gets all pissed off... he gets all moody and sad because he can't stay in character... I don't get it...
Extra-close examination... See how David plays guitar? Right-handed...
Characters want something... The character will always take what seems to them as the absolute minimal action necessary in order to achieve their goal. The story is made in the gap between expectation and result.
"You know Harvey, sometimes it really scares me: I get a fear right here." He pointed to his diaphragm. "Right in this hollow place that seems like it's holding you together."
"I know that place David."
First realizations of one's own mortality, fears of going to Hell when you die...
"Get out of my mind!"
"Me?"
"No, no, no, Harvey. You can stay. I think I just saw God. Did you know he has a thousand eyeballs?"
Harvey laughed. "There's no God in here, David."
"Maybe it wasn't God then..."
David starts talking about the presence in the Love Den scaring the shit out of him... he doesn't like it... it gives him nightmares... they ask him why he doesn't sleep in a different room... why doesn't he leave the Love Den if it keeps scaring him... He can't leave. He can't leave the Love Den. He's anchored there.
Believing in Santa Claus... Believing in Lies... The world just believes in lies. I'm not sayin' I disagree with you, I'm just playing devil's advocate. Aliens built the pyramids. Burning bush. Moses following a UFO through the desert, helping out with miracles, putting on the whole charade.
"Um, um, um... My name is Maggie."
"And how old are you Maggie?"
"I'm five and a half years old, going on six."
"Wow! Five and a half! You're almost a big girl now."
David laughed a spasmodic childish blushing laugh... "My uncle says when I grow up I'm going to be 'stunning.' I like my uncle. He touches me in a secret place."
The film is motion... like music is sound passing with time... film is picture and sound, both passing in time like music...
The experience of a film is in you the way the words of a book are in you. It is real to some viewers. To others it is merely a moving image. A picture which may hold no meaning or significance.
David holds his world together. Each of them lives in a personal imaginary world. They surrender themselves partially to David's world because he is their liberator, in a sense. The freedom they have living at his house allows them to do just about anything they please and they have a safe, private place where they can do it. Clyde makes plenty of money dealing drugs. Harvey doesn't really make a lot of money w/out a job. He's just kind of hanging out there without money, doing little chores for his relatives?, etc. Not taking life seriously. Their worlds are falling apart anyways. David fills in the gaps with his own world. He doesn't want to be alone.
David has a vision of a world where strange people can be themselves...
Harvey's audience--he always needs them.
Blaming drugs -- needing them, them affecting you, bringing you down, can't stop taking them, just relax and stop whining...
Personal freedoms... The government can do nothing about a broken heart...
Carefree, stubborn, childish, lovable, haunted,
Performers... everyone performs a task, whether it be drug dealing, in which you're trying to attract the right kind of attention, or what Harvey does, which is just his way of being... he's not a performer specifically, he's just a funny guy that everybody likes, so they hang out with him, follow him, because they want to laugh...
Paladium
The progression of David's mind...
At first, David may as well not be crazy. Harvey isn't worried, so that's what's important.
David has always been like this: weird, but not dangerous.
They worry about him, but only because he makes them nervous for that strange reason, the awkward silences, the avoiding eye contact, the strange things he says...
"David is just pretending. He did this even before... (even before his parents killed each other) ... in high school, David was always acting and he was always really good at it. He was in all the plays and shit. Me and him would prank people with his performances you know? He was great."
Sometimes David seems out of control.
Sometimes it seems like David is talking about hurting himself.
Sometimes David doesn't answer to his own name. -- He's gone crazy. He refuses to acknowledge that "David" even exists. He says he killed David. David is dead.
Sometimes David goes too far. We all go too far sometimes, so I forgive him.
Look, if you can't take it then you gotta get out. That's just how David rolls. Heavy.
David has been particularly scatterbrained lately, talking gibberish, he struggles to get even simple points across, he forgets what things are, simple objects...
David has these sudden emotional swings where he's super happy or super unhappy all of a sudden...
Sometimes, I'm talking to David, and I'm serious, I really need to talk to him, but it's like he won't just put it down and talk to me, he's got to stay in character... he can't break character, otherwise he gets all pissed off... he gets all moody and sad because he can't stay in character... I don't get it...
Extra-close examination... See how David plays guitar? Right-handed...