Above: MarnieScottie: “What was this desperate urge to see me?”
Midge: “All I said in my note was ‘Where are you?’ That doesn’t sound very desperate to me.”—VertigoTo be considered desperate is a trap from which there is no clear escape. Denial is fairly fruitless once consigned to that space, all past and future actions painted with the same sour glaze. And nothing is quite so unconvincing as insistence to the contrary. These dilemmas of misplaced affection are often couched in the language of literacy: reading too far into things and between the lines, being written off, poorly translated and, ultimately, taught a lesson. Much of the comedy and pathos of unrequited love is found in such moments of misinterpretation and the kind of humiliation that spreads across the face like a brush fire. Being defined as romantically inept can also pollute the image in ways beyond simple embarrassment.
Midge: “All I said in my note was ‘Where are you?’ That doesn’t sound very desperate to me.”—VertigoTo be considered desperate is a trap from which there is no clear escape. Denial is fairly fruitless once consigned to that space, all past and future actions painted with the same sour glaze. And nothing is quite so unconvincing as insistence to the contrary. These dilemmas of misplaced affection are often couched in the language of literacy: reading too far into things and between the lines, being written off, poorly translated and, ultimately, taught a lesson. Much of the comedy and pathos of unrequited love is found in such moments of misinterpretation and the kind of humiliation that spreads across the face like a brush fire. Being defined as romantically inept can also pollute the image in ways beyond simple embarrassment.
- 1/31/2020
- MUBI
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