plato's cave thirty seven (being a film journal)

George Lucas - American Graffiti - 1973

Cinematography by Jan D'Alquen & Ron Eveslage

Film Editing by Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas, and George Lucas

Climactic Seventies Nihilism

A race between Paul Le Mat (John) and Harrison Ford (Bob Falfa).

Not unlike Two‑Lane Blacktop or Rebel Without a Cause.

the lusty men

abstraction found in nicholas ray's the lusty men - 1952
from the perspective of the bull rider
slowed down to 50% and looped a few times

bigger than life

image 4+5 (a door opening) very bressonian

chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying

fight sequence toward the end of nicholas ray's bigger than life - 1956
cinematography by joe macdonald

rather disorienting camera work accompanied by an equally disorienting sound track
(a tv turned out to drown out the sound of the killing)