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at 20:27, 11 Aug 2005
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exhilarating
I'm still intoxicated with this film, and perhaps not in the state to write the most lucid, objective sort of reaction to "Yes"--but maybe that's better. I've never seen a film which felt so much like thought and life, despite the sometimes daring way it's put together (the verse, the continuity breaks, etc). There are no homages, no distracting artifices. Beyond that, it seems like "Yes" could have been made on the basis of nothing but life. It doesn't derive conflicts or characters from other movies.
It also has very real characters, not archetypes, who embody some of the oldest and bitterest conflicts of the human race-- the struggles of race, sex, faith, time, death and the constant (and perhaps misguided) fight against entropy and chaos. The scene between the two main characters in the parking garage show the deadlock between their cultures and their personalities: the misunderstandings and heartbreak at the point of "east meets west" can hardly be more poignantly expressed.
Movies like "Yes" remind me why I want to become a filmmaker: because this medium can be personal as a poem, yet encompass global, even universal questions. And I can't think of any work which has done so with more bold, exquisite mastery than "Yes."
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