Tuesday, January 14, 2014

On the movie Mama

"A ghost is an emotion bent out of shape condemned to repeat itself time and time again until it rights the wrong that was done"

I thought this was a spectacular definition of the ghost implying spectral justice or may be justice itself as a spectral phenomenon...

It comes from the horror film Mama (2013)...recommended for not just the horror movie buffs but people who like to think about the spectre... 

I thought it was a classy horror film which was both chilly and moving in its own way...what visuals too! the visual poetics of horror at its best! And along with everything else, that lingering passage of affect...

Ghost is indeed an 'emotion' more than anything else and as the finale tells us, human beings should have the independence to choose between themselves and ghosts...


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