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Scrambled posting on the subject of the emotional work of cinema
Apr 5 2009, 3:21 AM EDT
Sorry but two of my posts have become scrambled. Here they are separately, I hope. Yes, I first saw The Exorcist at a midnight screening in central London. The audience consisted of hardcore fans who were able to cite the dialogue in the film word for word and those who had simply turned up after the pubs had closed… What was interesting was that a kind of carnivalesque atmosphere prevailed, with the audience’s performance of the film undercutting any of its tension and horror. For me, a viewer who had avoided seeing it precisely because of its reputation as a truly frightening film, this turned out to be a wonderfully liberating encounter precisely because it demonstrated that the horror film and pleasure were not mutually exclusive. That said, my first encounter with The Exorcist is pertinent here, I suspect. It was non-cinematic and consisted of peers at my boarding school recounting scenes from the film at night in our dormitory after lights out – a collective experience that left far too much to my imagination… Do you find this valuable?
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