This is a really lovely review with some spot-on analyses, thanks.
Till We Have Faces was actually something that crossed my mind. I don't remember anything but the title, but I always found that touching by itself.
When you hide your face, you become safer, but lose identity. I'm interested in the voluntary mutilations that society pressures people toward.
I'd hope to never use sound in a violating way. I think there are some dissonant sounds, especially during angel sequences, but I made an effort to lower the volume in those scenes to a point I hoped would be effective but not deafening.
One thing: "I had to sacrifice my desire to be thought of as a good person." was never intended to be scary, it's about how by withdrawing from unpleasant or toxic situations, you abandon the narrative to others. Like say, hypothetically, someone was abused, and they fled their abusers, and their community--the abusers would be able to craft the most favorable narrative possible to themselves, and paint the victim as shit.
One thing: "I had to sacrifice my desire to be thought of as a good person." was never intended to be scary, it's about how by withdrawing from unpleasant or toxic situations, you abandon the narrative to others. Like say, hypothetically, someone was abused, and they fled their abusers, and their community--the abusers would be able to craft the most favorable narrative possible to themselves, and paint the victim as shit.I got that, more or less, but I got it in a rather less specific sense. "In order to survive and recover, I needed to allow myself to be self-centred, to inure myself against the moral criticism and demands of others (because in that state it was largely harmful), and do what was right for me
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Till We Have Faces was actually something that crossed my mind. I don't remember anything but the title, but I always found that touching by itself.
When you hide your face, you become safer, but lose identity. I'm interested in the voluntary mutilations that society pressures people toward.
I'd hope to never use sound in a violating way. I think there are some dissonant sounds, especially during angel sequences, but I made an effort to lower the volume in those scenes to a point I hoped would be effective but not deafening.
One thing: "I had to sacrifice my desire to be thought of as a good person." was never intended to be scary, it's about how by withdrawing from unpleasant or toxic situations, you abandon the narrative to others. Like say, hypothetically, someone was abused, and they fled their abusers, and their community--the abusers would be able to craft the most favorable narrative possible to themselves, and paint the victim as shit.
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