Sightlines · a concept

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*2nd reflection* — `sublime-figure` + `enfeebled-figure`, with `the-quotidian` (the everyday as at once trivial and unfathomable) as its genetic limit.

On screen: the sublime hero or his feeble inversion; the uncanny everyday.

10 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary


Across the collection

Freaks1932The Great Dictator1940Night and the City1950Sanjuro1962The Pink Panther1963Fitzcarraldo1982Shallow Grave1987The Lost World: Jurassic Park1997Skyfall2012Napoleon2023