Saturday, November 29, 2014

"Teorema"

I watched Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Teorema" earlier today. In most of the things I have read about this movie, including what is on the DVD case, it is said that the character played by Terence Stamp seduces all of the members of a family and their maid, yet each of the people initiate contact. Each of the people is affected differently by these encounters. They are all changed profoundly by the experience. Some of the scenes seem to be unconnected, but in the end we realize that it jumps around in time. There are shots of a desert-like wilderness throughout the film. It is not clear throughout most of the film the reason for these shots. I wonder if Andy Warhol was familiar with this film. In the film the son in the family (the one with whom the Visitor shares a bed on one or more nights, making him the one with whom the Visitor spends the most time) becomes an artist after the Visitor's departure. There is a scene in which the boy is seen urinating on a canvas that he had painted blue. I mention Andy Warhol in connection to this because he later did a series of paintings called the "Oxidation" series. These were canvases that Warhol painted with metallic paint and had someone urinate or ejaculate. It is a very interesting film. I have never had a sexual encounter that has had that much of an effect on me, but it might be possible. I don't think it is likely though. Maybe Pasolini was being somewhat satirical.

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