In Diegesis

I believe in a connotative language in this world. A language beyond the dialectic. A language of symbols, of feelings, of emanating spiritual energies. A language of non-words, non-science. A language of art.

It’s not a very hard language to speak; in difficulty, it pales to learning English or Chinese. If you’ve ever cried, you’ve spoken a paragraph. If you’ve ever marveled at beauty in nature, you’ve muttered some syllables. If you’ve ever noted in your life a strange coincidence and shrugged it off as meaningless chance, you’ve dismissed a word, perhaps a sentence.

There are people in this world, I have found, who can speak this language fluently. These people speak emotive truth through art. Their dialogues are always more than the sum of their parts. “Five Easy Pieces” director, Bob Rafelson, is one of these people. (more…)