There are many things that surprised me about Welcome II the Terrordome on my first watch. Surprisingly astute, in tune, synchronized. The story has a strong scaffold: a cinematic mirror image between Igbo Landing and the Transdean, or the Terrordome. So, I’m going to treat Terrordome’s story scaffold as the code, or at least a foundation of the code.
Read MoreOur conversations about the film always end with a brief exchange about whether we liked the film or not, and whether and how it is important. But it took me a while to wonder, well why don’t we speak more in depth about it? Like, a real, full community conversation?
Pursuing life and being with archival lineages through community which might be synthetic, which may have deposits of truth; which we might construct for ourselves and one another.
So, DO WE REALLY TAKE THE WATERMELON WOMAN SERIOUSLY?
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