Some of Wilfred Owen’s notes left in a draft of his unfinished poem, “Strange Meeting,” which was written in the months leading up to his death in 1918 (x)
“Literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear.”
A sampling of aperture framing in Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
In one aesthetic stroke these apertures simultaneously articulate the film’s themes of isolation, enclosure, and entrapment, as well as those of intimacy, fetishism, and photography.
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