What people say in Vernon, Florida is often funny, but it’s whatcauses them to say whatever they’re saying that most interests Morris, as well aswhat can linger in the mind of the viewer.
It certainly is interesting to see a person's thought process in action and where their stream of consciousness takes them.
In Gates of Heaven, especially,it’s as if the interviews were conducted while a long-exposure photograph wasbeing taken, and instead of waiting for the image to emulsify, we’re waiting for adeeper, stranger, more complex truth to arise.
This is an incredible way to put it. It makes me want to watch the film again to read in between the lines of what's being said
but also to the less obvious fact that it’s almost impossibleto remain attentive to every word of the film in any one sitting.
Those are the best types of movies; the kind where you can watch it numerous times and get something new out of it each time
he was drawnto the drift, to lingering in places others only pass through, to “the irrelevant, thetangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory,”
The little things about people that are often overlooked are often what makes them so interesting. This reminds me of the book Tristram Shandy, a book where the narrator often makes seemingly insignificant digressions about the characters that really allow the reader to understand the characters on a deeper level.
“The thing that makes civilization possible,” he told Film Comment in 1997,“is that people lie to one another routinely.
This is like the idea of "faking it til you make it." Everyone acts like they know what they're doing, when in reality, most people have no idea. Lying to others and faking confidence is how a lot of people progress.