Word: metas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michael’s warning (bad move), and Michael transforms into a gruesome wolf-man before her very eyes. Then, surprise! This turns out to be a movie that Michael and his date are watching. Then, double surprise! It was actually all a dream! How refreshingly über-meta. How astoundingly moronic.At the blissful end of this travesty, I have nothing but sympathy for the girl. I too know what it’s like to witness Michael’s unholy transformation into a monstrosity, but I’m pretty sure his condition is the result...
...sucking sound that begins as Mrs. Lee eating and becomes the sound of a vampire feeding. The vampire is in a horror movie directed by the main character of the segment, who sets the movie in an apartment that looks just like his house. This and other bits of meta trickery lend a self-mocking element to the short, but it becomes horrific when a disgruntled extra imprisons the director, ties up his wife just out of reach, and threatens to cut off one of her fingers every five minutes unless the director strangles a child...
...reverence. This exquisite poetry remains miraculously untainted by the surrounding grimy carnival of lust, corruption, and absurdity. Christopher Unborn anticipates a reader versed in the “Western canon” who will appreciate the novel’s continuous literary allusions and the periodic surfacings of a meta-textual subplot about authors and readers. It is an anarchic zoo of people, events, and opinions swarming in the monstrous, beautiful, incomprehensible Mexico of the eighties and nineties. Though the narrator’s world is constantly on the verge of hysterical collapse, his storytelling is so magnificent that...
Plus, all of this is kind of a dated argument, in a way. The real snobs that I know sound suspiciously like you, my friend. They tend to be the ones who, in a dazzling feat of meta-snobbery, decide that Pitchfork’s opinions are anathema, and doubt themselves if they agree with this merry band of traveling hipsters...
Perhaps this scene is the director’s acknowledgement of the film’s theatrical origin and his attempt to incorporate images of the stage into film’s visual idiom vis-à-vis postmodern notions of meta-narrativity...