"There's not enough softness in the world."
"If there is an end, I want to go back. Back to the beginning, back before presents, pasts, and futures, back before eternity, before earth and sky, before the thought is unchangeable, before ecstasy breaks, before she was in it, before the light is turned on, before the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, before I woke up screaming, before I want to happen most of all, before it got so dark, before the darkness swallows, before I am the darkness."
There is such a beautiful use of light and sound here, and as in the first two films of the trilogy, a weaving together of online and real worlds in a haunting way. I also really liked the short story this tells of a woman who has been cheated on (Curie Choi), and then begins poking around the other woman's online presence. "She's like J-Lo Nosferatu," she tells her friends at the spa. "I found out where she lives, what her mom looks like, her family." Obsessed, her imagination begins blurring with daily life, and she feels a need to make herself sexier, posing braless in front of a mirror, and awkwardly flirting with her friend. Her dancing in front of the colored lights to Nitzer Ebb's Join In The Chant is fantastic, as Choi channels rage and pain with a perfect degree of restraint. The poem at the end, told while following the other woman through a subway station, and then going out to the ocean shore herself (of course taking a picture of it with her phone), is brilliant. This is one that was even better with a rewatch. Would love to see more from Micaela Durand, Daniel Chew, and Curie Choi.
