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Nonatone Noodle #2: The Great Rain
‘A self-loathing wank’ - Vanity Fair review of Lars Von Trier’s 2018 shock horror serial killer movie ‘The House That Jack Built’
When this movie was shown at Cannes, apparently half the audience walked out. (A disappointment to the director, in all probability, who would perhaps preferred everyone to.)
I just caught it on Blu Ray last night. It’s… different, for sure.
Deeply misogynistic violence. Moments of true awfulness, involving, yes, a car jack (geddit?), a woman’s breasts, and a little duckling. Children shot for sport, and their dead bodies mutilated. Even a story about a concentration camp. Oh, and depending on your tolerance, either some intriguing musing on the relationship between art and fascism, or a load of pretentious, sixth form, yes, wank. And yet…
…What it definitely is is a hell of a performance by Matt Dillon.
And a series of images burned indelibly into my brain.
Haven’t felt so conflicted by a movie since Christian Bale’s brother-in-mayhem Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. (A film I have grown to love as the blackest satire). Von Trier’s movie is not actually scary, or even that shocking, except in a ‘look at me being disgusting’ teenage sort of way.
But it certainly has something. Reminiscent perhaps of Haneke’s Funny Games, or John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer.
Hence my inadequate response. Nonatone Noodle #2, this one fully weaponized via MIDILFOs firing on all AU parameters, assisted by Neon, Animoog bass, Bleep, Relic Waves, and Noises.
Trust me. Even if you hate this, it’s still an easier (or at least quicker) experience than the movie. (Which incidentally offers its’ own interesting aural perspective on Hell).
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you've convinced me
@audiblevideo : Thank you! Yes, Shoom. Still great. I wouldn’t consider it particularly comparable to Nonatone, though. It’s a lot more flexible, a lot more precise for pitch. Just a shame that it is IAA only. I tend to use it as a performance/jam/improv thing in an AUM channel on record to create a wav player loop for further messing. More of a lead instrument than Nonatone, whose natural habitat is drones and pads, I think…
A dull edginess. A flash drought. A burnt waterfall. An egg without toast.
@LinearLineman : Not a fan then, I take it?
I will armour myself with the thought that you may be directing those - striking - images against Jack, or Von Trier. A lot of people really, really didn’t like this movie. In fact, it’s even more meta and convoluted than that. The first voice you hear is his victim. Then Jack. And the third voice you hear in the clip I used, briefly at the end, declaring Jack to be a ‘terrifying pervert psycho’, denying the artist he imagines himself to be, is ‘Verge’, played by the late, great Bruno Ganz of Downfall fame, who acts as our proxy witness and critic of Jack’s (and arguably Von Trier’s) narcissistic delusion. And in this context, my own, of course. Like Von Trier I want to have my cake and eat it too.
And if I, a non musician pretending to be a musician through a repertoire of cheap tricks, a non artist trying to steal some valour from a genuine artist, through the cheap appropriation of a few lines of dialogue, should be so strangely fascinated and drawn to this tale of a death-obsessed self-deluding wannabe artistic fraud, then I guess that it should come as no actual surprise…
lol, I was just having some fun with the creepiness of it all. The track was a good one. Your evolution has been great over the past few years. Keep it up, my friend.
Mesmerizing.... kewl!
Don’t think the film is for me. I’m more of a Sound of Music sort of person 😊
Enjoyed the music though particularly the non vocal sections.
@skiphunt : Thank you!
@GeoTony : you know, I have never seen The Sound Of Music. I hear it is quite good! Thanks for the listen, and the comment. I’m always conflicted over vocal lifts. I enjoy paying homage to favourite movie moments, since a geeky interest in film is my second abiding love after making my noises, but I know I lack the skills to do them justice. (My first choice for uni many years ago was film studies. I wonder how things would have turned out had I gone down that path?)
So many great moments. And they will all be lost.
Like tears in the rain,
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