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2 Movies, 2 Photographers, 2 Murders, 2 Realities

One of the side benefits of my new working/house-sharing conditions with Jim Groom is getting a chance to watch some movies together. I have a lot of backlog to catch up to his catalog, but this week we watched two classic films, that almost randomly had eerie amounts of similarity. The first was Blowup, apparently the first English speaking film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. In this 1960s psychedelic London scene, David Demmings plays Thomas, a busy, almost haggled, photographer, who has an apartment/studio space that is a story unto itself. After we get some insight into his surroundings, and his rather detached gruff behavior with clients and models, he ends up wandering into a park, taking some sneaky photos of Vanessa Redgrave’s character, Jane, encounter with a man there. (I have some quibbles about the photography portrayed- Thomas uses the same camera and lens way too close, to take [...]

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