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The first time I saw this, it was just about the formalism. I let the images and music and stilted dialogue wash over me. I may as well has left the subtitles off. And, for the most part, I dug it.

This time I really tried to follow something if not resembling a narrative, than at least micro-narratives. Enough to blurb about (as others have done.)

I failed. So, I suppose, I don’t actually like this movie. I guess I’m in that camp.

But I do recognize its beauty and the mark it left on design.

Now I hang my head in shame for being unable to connect with it enough to wax pseudo intellectually about its flaws. (I still love Hiroshima, Mon Amour, though.)