Four Eyed Monsters
This is a fascinating time that we live in right now. Television is now where the radio was in the 1950’s. The computer and the internet have begun to be a valid replacement. In fact, starting next year, television will no longer be broadcast in an analogue form. Which means this year, you will begin to see a huge marketing push to sell digital television (DTV) converters. (Sounds like a stock tip.) Being without a television now, and constantly fighting insomnia, I have already found myself watching about the same amount of movies and shows as I did before. Only with the computer, I can choose what I want to watch…or even discover something completely new like I did tonight…
Though a series of random links, I ended up stumbling upon the film Four Eyed Monsters. I had never heard of it, nor knew anything about it. But I clicked the play button anyway. It immediately captured my attention and held it. When it was over, it continued to hold. It was a truly beautiful film. It is a true story…one that is still going on…about the relationship between Arin Crumley, and Susan Bruice…who are both filming their experience of being in a relationship.
This “project,” brings up the all to familiar questions within relationships. “How long will the relationship last?” “What makes a relationship last at all?” “How did it start?” “How will it end?”
The other wonderful thing about this movie is that it started on the internet, and is ending up on the big screen. Not through a major movie distributor, but through the people who watched the movie and wanted to share it by setting up a screening in their city, or just by sending the link to a their friends.
After visiting their website, I realized that the film had been out since 2006. Before I decided to post about it here, I searched Metroblogging for any previous posts on it, but did not find any posts about it. I then searched the web and found that it has gotten quite the buzz since its release. As I began posting about it, this is when I started to ask myself, “Was the website, the subsequent blogs and profiles, all just created as an ingenious promotional tool?” “Is this some new form of clever advertising voo-doo which makes us believe a television reality?”
Either way, I enjoyed it, and I wanted to share it.
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Gimmicky enough prospect, sure - but what, again, does it have to do with Portland?
It will be playing in salem this february and was at the hollywood last year.
Other than that, not sure on the portland connection. We’ll let it slide for now. :P
Found this on youtube.. a short little comment on portland filmmakers which felt apropos after a recent thread.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NzAqkYt3tGI