Directed by Tom Kalin
"Savage Grace" is not a simple story about classical Oedipus complex. Sure, the symbolic death of the father might be found as well as a very literal carnal commerce with the mother. This film is mainly a story about a boy growing up and struggling with his existential dilemmas and dealing with that to which Jacques Lacan or Zizek would refer as "the real" in opposition to "reality". Here reality is that of a wealthy family with a life full of luxuries and eccentricities. But that's reality. The symbolic order. Beneath all that there is an excess, something that can be neither subdued nor fully explained.
Lacan also said that desire would be connected with the real. And thus when desire conquers everything, the ugly truth shows up in the surface. But I won't spoil the grim finale even to those who might have heard about the real case that inspired this story.
It's interesting, however, to observe that young Baekeland is in-between-places. His sexuality seems to surmount the models Lacan would include in his orthodox sexuation graphic. He has homosexual encounters at a very early age and then later on. But that does not seem to seclude him from other experiences (namely the incestuous aspect of the relationship with his mother).
I would say that the Baekeland's failure comes from his inability to articulate his desire. And this inability will lead him to act against his own interests in a most nefarious way.
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Luz Letts |
Fue divertido conversar con Cores, en los últimos meses hemos coincidido en muchas muestras pero no habíamos tenido la oportunidad de hablar por un buen rato. Justo me comentó que este lunes 9 sale en 3G (lo entrevistaron para discutir el tema de la fotografía en la era digital), así que no pienso perderme el programa.
Luz Letts |
Haroldo Higa |
Al mismo tiempo también se inauguraba “Entropía” de Haroldo Higa, una impactante propuesta que retorna a algunos de los materiales favoritos del artista para presentarnos esculturas llenas de significado. Sobre el uso y reúso del caucho color negro, Ilse Rehder compartió conmigo una idea realmente ingeniosa: que algún artista -quizá el propio Higa- se anime a recorrer la carretera rumbo al norte, soplete en mano, para hacer una escultura con la gran cantidad de llantas tiradas que se encuentran por el camino. Aunque me hubiera gustado quedarme hasta tarde, mis responsabilidades con Plus TV me obligaron a irme relativamente temprano.