Word: disjoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sontag argued that the film could not be understood in terms of plot. To do so would necessitate strict identification of each scene as real or imaginary, destroying the coherence built up from the disjoint opening images. The film presents an actress whose mental condition has suddenly left her mute. She is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea. There they somehow merge or change identities--most people got that far, but that's, not very far at all. The film is not a puzzle but a meditation, Sontag said, and that interpretation is Simon...