Word: valeria
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...desk, eating bags of Cheetos. Her presence, along with the smell of Cheetos, will somehow make my copy much better. Brooks thinks this is a great idea, but I fear it won't go over well with my wife. That's when Brooks suggests her hot friend Valeria, who is a lesbian. And it is right then that I finally see just how valuable a muse Brooks...
...weeks later, when I am having trouble with this very article, Valeria leaves me a message. Though I am disappointed that my muse lives in the suburbs of New Jersey, I call her right back, at which point I am further disappointed to hear that my muse has a day job importing electronics parts. Still, Valeria is inspiring. In a syrupy voice, she tells me to dip a bag of tea slowly into a cup of hot water while thinking to myself, No goals. Though that didn't help this piece, I can understand why muses are so valuable: they...
...emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria Ciangottini), her face innocent and knowing, beckons to Mastroianni, and in his wry stupor he waves her entreaties away...
...Take Valeria. She's as fluffy and self-absorbed as her tiny dog Richie. She cannot endure the pain, loneliness and loss that follow the accident. He becomes similarly needy as a result of a mishap that is, at first, more comic than desperate. Their story ends with her staring silently out the window at the blank wall that once held her picture, 10 stories tall, while he snoozes...
Except that, unlike Octavio and Valeria, El Chivo is shrewd enough to recognize something of himself in the killer dog, and to begin to make peace with his haunted past. It may be too late for any full-scale reconciliations, but his is the only hopeful story Inarritu tells, the one that catches this aspect of his belief: "We lose our innocence, our looks, our loves, finally life itself. We are what we lose...