{"id":1604,"date":"2007-06-01T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/into-the-great-silence.html"},"modified":"2007-06-01T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T20:24:12","slug":"into-the-great-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/into-the-great-silence.html","title":{"rendered":"Into the Great Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

We watched it a few weeks ago, and Michael Scaperlanda’s post on the film <\/a>reminded me of something I meant to remark on at the time, but didn’t.<\/p>\n

Michael speaks of the length of the film, and what struck me just as much, if not more was the length of the shots<\/em>. The camera lingers on everything – sky, leaves, faces, hands. The lingering disoriented me at first, so accustomed am I to quick shots, rapid cutting in film. It was almost as if my brain and my eyes have been conditioned (and they probably have) to see something new after a second (or less). When that second had passed, my eyes would almost reflexively dart away, looking for something else to see. But there was nothing else to see, so I had to look back at that same leaf or face or pair of hands. <\/p>\n

And then, finally..I could see something.<\/p>\n

It was actually rather disconcerting, realizing how conditioned I am, wondering, as millions of images flash by, how much I may be actually missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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