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2003-04-30 - 11:28 a.m. We watched Auto Focus last night. There seemed to be a hint of synchronicity with the "flaming orange" of the Blackburnian Warbler I saw Sunday and the dream I had Tuesday with the tiny, round, orange satsuma being used as a sacrament. In any case, I leaned forward eagerly to find out the meaning of it all when I heard these lines:
Bob: "I was thinking about orange the other day...the color. We take it for granted, right?"So I still don't know the meaning of it all. But I suspect that it's something like this: There are so many images, thoughts, events, interpersonal encounters, sights, sounds, smells, dreams, fantasies that take place during any given period of hours or days that it's easy for the brain to sort of randomly focus on one of those images (like the "flaming orange") and try to make something of it. Actually, the film was an excellent film and deserves to be seen, although it's too bad that it was a true story, because it would have been more compelling and less preachy if the whole murder thing had been left out. There is no use giving a spoiler warning to any readers who might accidentally stumble across my diary, because the film comes with its own spoiler, a credit at the beginning saying that it's based on The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith. Perhaps it is supposed to create a feeling of dread as Bob gets deeper and deeper into the compulsive videotaping of his compulsive womanizing. He even brought along his own personal geek to keep him supplied with the latest equipment. What we have here, friends and neighbors, is the case of a man with an unfortunate passion. If he had been a porno producer and publisher -- a Hugh Hefner or a Larry Flynt -- he would have been happier than a pig in you-know-what. But he wanted to be Jack Lemmon and still play drums at the strip clubs. Although the film suggests that he followed his passion too far, it could be argued that he didn't follow it far enough. Maybe he would have been happier if he had just thrown away the whole Disney/TV thing and flung himself headlong into a porno career. Then he'd really be focused.
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