Finally watched Memoria this week, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest #film, set in Colombia and involving Tilda Swinton as a Scottish expat living in Medellín, but visiting Bogotá and hearing a sound that unmoors her.
I'll be writing about it in next month's newsletter, but right now I keep coming back to the experience of *listening* that makes up the whole of this gentle film. No greater conflict to the plot. Just movement through the world. As we do. Do you stop to listen, too?
@MLClark can’t wait sounds quite intriguing
@hootenanny Go into it as you would a gentle Miyazaki, just for the experience of moving through the world with the character, and it should hold up!
@MLClark Awesome! Glad you finally got a chance to see this… I’m going to have to have a little Apichatpong Weerasethakul mini-marathon soon. 🙂 @hootenanny
@MLClark @hootenanny nice!!! Sounds wonderful. 💚
@MLClark @Apocryphiliac sounds incredibly relaxing 😎
@Apocryphiliac @hootenanny Best part was that I was drowsing by the end (only because it was late, and the nature sounds were so soothing), but... I also didn't realize when the credits had stopped because my brain had just carried on listening to similar sounds of the natural world out my window. :) It's definitely an auditory experience that awakens the ear to the small, unhurried wonders everywhere.