Passages
Get in the bin, Tomas, get in all the bins
dir: Ira Sachs
2023
I watched a profoundly stupid film a couple of nights ago (no, not this one here), and one of the many exceedingly stupid moments, doubled, involves multiple people receiving a bullet through a “vascular corridor” or passage, which looks like it’s a deathly wound, straight through the heart
It’s a location so carefully calibrated that if it’s done right, not one but two people get to survive being shot in the chest. A bullet, passing through your heart, that somehow doesn’t kill the person it’s happened to.
I thought of this when I was watching this film here Passages. In fact it’s the only positive thing that’s stayed with me from the entire experience of watching the other movie. To be fair, and I don’t want to be, to the other movie, that idea was ripped off from earlier movies, possibly even the Zhang Yimou flick Hero from over twenty years ago? Fuck!, which had someone ‘pretend’ to kill an opponent with a sword, but who perfectly places the sword stroke such that it looks like a fatal heart wound, but it’s only a scratch.
I’m belaboring the point, but this flick is called Passages, and those other flicks reference a way of giving people mortal wounds through their hearts, and yet the victims keep on living.
Maybe it won’t be a good life, but alive they remain, because of that mysterious vascular passage.
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