As one day gives way to another — days that look remarkably the same — his visit takes on existential weight, and the movie becomes an exploration, both playful and rueful, of desire, narrative and the idea beautifully expressed by Faulkner in "Absalom, Absalom!" that "maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished".
(Scott) ★ 'The Day He Arrives' (No rating, 1 19) When a former film director visits a friend, the days blur together in a movie from the prolific South Korean filmmkaer Hong Sang-soo that turns into a playful and rueful exploration of desire, narrative and the idea beautifully expressed by Faulkner in "Absalom, Absalom!" that "maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished".
And it might not be honest to frame things this way if you do not admit that this is the way you want the world to work, that you desire the modernist narrative of progress, in part because you want to be on the side of modernism, the side of the winner.
A prediction: A desire for narrative, which is coherence, will return.
Fiction is about simultaneously outing and satisfying our innate desire for narrative.
As their thwarted friendship suggests, however, history does not always yield to our desire for narrative closure.
I go to a panel about influence, and Lev Grossman talks about how disappointed he was when he realized there was no passageway to Narnia as a child, and how he carried those desires and narrative themes to The Magicians trilogy.
The execution of the new narrative left something to be desired, however.
Instead, they are most likely trying to create a favorable news narrative — and they may fiddle with these assumptions until they get the desired result.
In this article, we share strength- and desire-based narratives to explore how reservations can serve as spaces of wellness for Indigenous youth, despite ongoing settler colonial harm.
