>>
|
e3f578.jpg
Harmony Desire
e3f578
Maybe this might be the issue people are, though I'm fine with this stuff right now, just trying to see it from a different POV
People suggest on the grounds that success is in sight, or within their grasp. There's a point to their suggestion. The suggestions were akinned to back-seat driving metaphor by the author, all right. Passengers ride along to get to a destination. And that journey is fun.
Normally, in an optimal dark comedy, you would feel a lot bumps in the road, but you sense we're getting to a destination in a form. A form of progress is made, sometimes, thanks to the foggy roads, mirages and bumps, the car is even farther from where they began and the character is worse off though it look like we're driving towards progress still, sort of. Like in Breaking Bad, Walter White's goal in the beginning is getting more money. He gets it by going through hell and changing a lot inside, and losing much. And then he loses money again, goes through more stress to get it, and practically loses his destination for a completely different one near the end, a pointless empty destination.
Katia's hitting some good bumps here, but fuck, she hasn't gotten worse off than how she's started since she first lost all her shit like this. She's been through this situation before, only now in a different location and completely different context. She hasn't even grown much different as a person or her way of reacting to things hasn't changed much either. She's just naked, crying, dieseased, homeless and ashamed again, it's just back to square one. In a dark comedy, we should be back farther to square negative-three to keep up the change. And technically, we only made it to square 1.5 before falling back to square one, that isn't much of a backtrack at all! It's honestly like all of us in the car are just driving around in a culdesac here without even knowing it, or asking Katia to stay put and turn on the car's hydraulics on a single big bump in the road.
Now we have to get either worse than even before, or significantly better, THEN WAY SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE. The engagement rollercoaster's got a pretty flat wave going on here.
|