May 2019
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Another day, another amnesia movie. This one, Shadow on the Wall, is different only because the amnesiac is a child. The poor dear has witnessed a murder, and has been traumatized, which we know because her wooden perkiness transforms into wooden woodenness. In the vulgar reductive Freudianism to which the film pays full credence, the…
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I dreamed I was on the phone with my father (who has been dead these 35 years). Although his voice was very faint, it was distinctly him. He said, "Don't vote for Beto." End of conversation, end of dream.