{"id":8885,"date":"2013-11-19T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2013-11-16T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T02:17:48","slug":"damnation-1988-bela-tarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8885","title":{"rendered":"Damnation (1988, Bela Tarr)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karrer (Futaki in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/166\">Satantango<\/a><\/em>) is kind of a loser. Dumped by his married girlfriend, he hangs out at local bars in a mining town until one bartender hires him to transport a package.  So he talks the married girlfriend and her husband into helping him &#8211; they must be the only people he knows &#8211; and oh, how he talks them into it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This way it&#8217;s a nice family story. But it finishes like any other story, because stories end badly.  Stories are all stories of disintegration. The heroes always disintegrate, and they disintegrate the same way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/damnation1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/damnation2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the details. A coat check woman philosophizes. Karrer gets back with his girl, whose husband is in debt.  The package has been opened. Things are missing.  Karrer ends up at a police station. &#8220;It was this awful inner tension that brought me here, because of my deep respect for order. Please do not consider my report as a confidential case, but cheap tattling, and I authorize you, if necessary, to mention my name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/damnation3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Karrer ends the movie out in a junkyard barking at a dog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/damnation4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Along the way: long shots, pouring rain, 4:3 b\/w cinematography. Bela Tarr-like. It&#8217;s supposed to be the movie that kicked off Tarr&#8217;s long-take style, which means now I have only the social realist early films to check out. Finally watched this because I got a free preview offer for Janice Lee&#8217;s new Bela Tarr-inspired book, also entitled <em>Damnation<\/em>.  Apologies to the publisher, but I am months and months behind right now &#8211; still looking forward to reading the book, and will post on it when I do.<\/p>\n<p>P. Bradshaw: &#8220;Any conceivable drama or furtive eroticism latent in all this is entirely passed over in favour of a dark and general assessment of the futility of it all. It is as if Tarr has disengaged from these preposterous local activities and stepped back to inspect the bigger picture. &#8230; This is not a film that will have you whistling a happy tune on your way out of the theatre. In fact, a responsible manager will demand your tie and bootlaces on the way in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karrer (Futaki in Satantango) is kind of a loser. Dumped by his married girlfriend, he hangs out at local bars in a mining town until one bartender hires him to transport a package. So he talks the married girlfriend and her husband into helping him &#8211; they must be the only people he knows &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,128,129],"class_list":["post-8885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-bela-tarr","tag-hungary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}