obsession, revenge, pathos and regret from "three quarters of a million light years distant".....Before Technicolor brought the Rainbow, closer.....say...."2000 Light Years From Home" in 1967.......

 Missing in this late 1930's Fantasy Sci-Fi Flick....the Radium Girls, in a chorus line, singing praises to glow-in-the-dark hands, numerals and markers of fashionable watches and many other 'products' of Commercial Forlays into Mass Marketing to The Public,  before the current era of persistent onscreen time/elapsed time indications.....of the wonders of magical healing via the new chemical....Radium.... A whack on his head by Karloff's onscreen Mama ends his four mad personality derangement compulsivities as he leaps from a roof.....dematerializing into a cloud of smoke...into Nothingness....Leaving the still invisible seeds of Plutonium destruction to follow, shortly thereafter, in the desert of Los Alamos, in July of 1945.....  Welding helmets, and lead-mesh capes.... 'on', general public....and there'll be Nothing(ness) to fear....right??   Don't forget to 'clip that coupon' from your D.C. Comics, kids, there's a deep discount on Plasmatic Generators and Ion Storm Globes, with not one, but four free sample vials of genuine Uranium dust.......soon to be included in  GILBERT'S  fifty buck U-238 ATOMIC ENERGY LABORATORY....to be delivered by Santa, via reindeer sled, piloted by Rudolph's 'glow in the dark radioactive nose',   on X'mas of 1950.....

"It's A Rainbow, folks.....not just a Cloud Of Smoke".....Just take off those protective classes and you'll see that!  Well, at least, from the windows of Brixton Prison.......If you can break a butterfly on a wheel, you can disorient a Nation of Believers with a puff of Smoke!  Don't bogart that joint, lest the Circle  be broken.....

the still frames from Knife In The Water....that I remember.....from so long ago......the dialogue may as well have been in Martian, then.......

 

 I made 'the connection' between Krzysztof Komeda and Roman Polanski, while watching Knife In The Water, for the first time...since I viewed/heard it, during a trip to New York, in 1962 or 3....Polish Jazz set a trend for Film Soundtracks during the "Art Film" craze of the early 1960's........a sourcing for Nina Rota's soundtracks in Fellini's movies.......Then, came Miles Davis and the Americans.......The soundtrack of Knife In The Water and Davis' Kind Of Blue were directional arrows for me in my teens......with Spike Jones' madness and whimsy via his City Slickers...far from the Norman Luboff Choir performances that I slept through, just a year before.........I'm ready to move some furniture! Antique furniture! It always helps to have a good soundtrack, unless you're playing chess with Ingmar Bergman...in perfect silence.

Chalamet, his spirits uplifted... to get the call, informing him of his Academy Award Nomination for Marty Supreme.....

 

He recalled his disappointment at the end of "Call Me By Your Name"

        that he bore in mind, during his last scene in Marty Supreme

The Lugubrious Soundtrack, not totally dissociated from the Moral Question

I suppose this is why people watch 8 pm sitcoms.......to deny the shadows that block the lunacy of the Moon's rays, late at night...

φλώρος ....... aka: THE WIMPS (JUST DON'T MAKE THEMSELVES 'TOO EASY TO READ', OF COURSE)

 

WOODY  ALLEN,,   GILBERT GODFRIED,   ELIJAH WOOD,  ROWAN ATKINSON,  STEVE BUSCEMI,  TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ,  AND "THE  COWARDLY  LION SOCIETY "  HAVE FOUNDED  A  NEW  MEN'S SOCIAL  FRATERNITY......LIMP-WRISTEDLY HOLDING HANDS AS THEY MOCKINGLY DANCE AROUND THE MAYPOLE OF BUTCHNESS WORSHIP.    THEIR ALMOST-NOTICED REPARAMETERIZATION IS SPREADING ACROSS THE CONTINENTS' INTERNETS... LIKE THE RISING POPULARITY OF 'PINK PANTS', EARRINGS,  LIP MOISTURIZERS, AND HEAVY, DIAMOND-STUDDED GOLD CHAINS  ON BUTCH ATHELETES.....

''GUNS AKIMBO" WAS TOO GRATITUOUSLY VIOLENT FOR ME TO ENDURE.....EVEN WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS, DANIEL RADCLIFFE!

 

 

  I HAD TO REACH FOR MY RESCUE INHALER!, the 'pause' button...then, the 'power button' to reduce, then abandon some intense Anxiety.......