" .. study what happens to anyone beholding an actress--the spectator, the audience, or ourselves in any of our voyeur roles. And the most important thing in that vexed transaction is the way the actress and the spectator must remain strangers. That's how the magic works … For there cannot be this pitch of irrational desire without that rigorous apartness, provided by a hundred feet of warm space in a theater, and by that astonishing human invention, the screen, at the movies. And just as the movies were never simply an art or a show, a drama or narrative, but the manifestation of desire, so the screen is both barrier and open sesame.
The thing that permits witness--seeing her, being so intimate--is also the outline of a prison." -- from the introduction to Nicole Kidman by David Thomson
"Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) is a British writer who doesn't use or understand anything modern. One day, he forgets his keys and locks himself out of his flat. It begins to rain, so he goes to see an E.M. Forster movie but, instead, accidentally enters the wrong theatre and sees the teen flick Hotpants College II starring Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley)."
"He becomes instantly infatuated with Ronnie's beauty and obsessed with the young actor. He goes to his movies in the cinema, buys teen magazines and cuts out pictures of him, and buys a VCR and TV in order to play rented video tapes of his movies."
The novella it's based on (by Gilbert Adair, who also wrote The Holy Innocents, later filmed as The Dreamers) was a retelling of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. "Mann's original intention was to write about 'passion as confusion and degradation.'" From the Amazon review of Adair's book: "Initially denying even the possibility that he might be experiencing a homosexual crush, De'Ath soon finds himself giving in to this 'strange and bothersome distraction' by scouring teenybopper magazines for articles like '20 Facts Ya Didn't Know About [Ronnie]!!' 'As someone who did not know any facts at all about him as yet,' he notes, 'I confess I felt a certain onset of excitement.'"
If you're any kind of cinephile, you have a Ronnie Bostock. That doesn't mean you agree with Giles that Jason Priestley is a mega dreamboat, only that you can relate to his strange and bothersome distraction. While others are unable to find a single redeeming feature in an actor or actress, your thoughts about him or her could be punctuated by multiple exclamation marks. That's Thomson's magic.
Love and Death on Long Island is a story about a spectator who out of irrational desire tries to remove that rigorous apartness. Most of us prefer the prison.
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