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March 20, 2005
Betty Blue Movie
I am going to reflect a bit on what is left with me after many days after viewing "Betty Blue." I lived through the wild and wonderful 70's and early 80's and this movie took me back to my youth and free-wheeling sort of life-style that perhaps many of you are living now. It was a time of not having a lot of possessions or personal commitments and being a sort of "traveling man." It was also a time of sensual and erotic intensities. This was certainly brought out clearly in the film from its first scene. I said in our discussion that I felt the film was more about a sort of mythological landscape of intensities. Betty's erratic behavior was not so disturbing to me in this second viewing, since I was seeing it as a sign of a lifestyle that all the characters were participating in. No one was the victim of Betty's rage; rather all sort of danced with it in an effort to keep the volume high in life. Does anyone else relate to this? (I've got Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida on in the background as I type this).
Posted by lyceum at March 20, 2005 12:55 PM
Comments
I'd like us all to think about containment and boundaries in this work. What does this mean for us, if it isn't directly related to the therapeutic context?
Posted by: David at March 21, 2005 09:32 AM