This Happens When You Cut Off Someone You Love

Anora

I struggled to watch this, not because it was emotionally difficult, but because, as it turned out, there are three parts to this film, which, using a graphic metaphor, started out with spray paint on the side of a dumpster, transitioned to colored comedic sharpies on good paper, to a master stroke of oil on an expensive canvas. I was at first disgusted, then entertained (slightly) with the comic relief, and emotionally punched by the last scene. But, all that work to get to that brief interlude was not worth it. At all. On the other hand, Yuriy Borisove's taciturn performance was deeply beautiful. He didn't have to say a word to express his perfect love for Anora.

The Theory of STUPIDITY | Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Appalachian Creations

I turned an old door mat over yesterday and discovered this "piece." Absolutely no intention lay behind it other than to use it repeatedly as a small tarp to keep house paint off of the floor. Some fool would probably pay for this as "an aesthetic record of post-modern Appalachian spillage," or the like.