albie
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by albie on Feb 22, 2019 11:33:06 GMT
Should one ask a question of Campbell's work? This is his most confusing story. We have a film crew and a repeating image of a cut hand. Then we have weird stuff happening or not happening. Then a trembling door and something about to happen.
What? Why?
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Post by bluetomb on Feb 22, 2019 19:01:36 GMT
Without a copy to hand I can only give a general impression, but mine was of the tensions of a couple wound tight by the intrusion of a film crew and subject of their film, to the point that something very bad may happen. Relationship, domesticity, ambiguous disturbance of psyches, the dangers (or not) of strangers, of Art, even. And ironic titling. I think, like a fair few Campbell stories, that the answers really lie in close reading and analysis. The Old Horns is a particularly good brain itcher to me.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 22, 2019 20:25:44 GMT
Should one ask a question of Campbell's work? This is his most confusing story. We have a film crew and a repeating image of a cut hand. Then we have weird stuff happening or not happening. Then a trembling door and something about to happen. What? Why? Sex. |
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albie
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Post by albie on Feb 23, 2019 11:40:24 GMT
Ah. Two good answers.
Sex? It was the bedroom door that opened on its own and trembled. But why so much violence? Does Ramsey suggest sadomasochism in their relationship? Or does he see sex as an act of violence?
Was the villain of the piece magic I wonder? Did the actors playing out a violent act form a kind of spell that would make a real violent act happen. Unable to make the couple follow the spell it manifests something else to bring the spell into reality? Something that will come out of the bedroom?
It suddenly struck me that the story could be about childbirth. Something coming through the bedroom door.
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