Word: weberã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Despite Weber??€™s obsessive grooming and refining of materials, his tastes are strikingly multi-faceted. This diversity perhaps accounts for the film’s narrative style, which is free-form and free-associative to a head-spinning degree. Archival footage of outrageous singer-pianist Frances Faye will dissolve into a filmed sequence of desert explorer Sir Wilfred Thesinger, which will morph into a series of still shots from small-town parade, which will change into a picture of a young model wearing a turban and silk shawls. Characters and events tumble by, with nary a clear transition...
...style as well as substance, Chop Suey not only explores Weber??€™s personal tastes but also replicates his particular creative process. Weber, we come to see, experiences the world as his own personal jewel-mine. He scavenges it for the choicest raw materials, then cuts and sets and polishes them until they shine with a luminousness only attainable through masterful craft. Simultaenously being a photographer, his god-like role extends even further: he doesn’t just create the world, he also presents it, selecting and cropping and editing it into one supreme final image. He works...
...this detachment is precisely the point. Going back to that paradox mentioned earlier, the film’s world is one that, by necessity, no average onlooker is supposed to understand. Weber??€™s are subjects whose very existence is dependent on the level of mystery and intrigue that surround their names and images. We’re supposed to stare at them, to be arrested and impressed and maybe even obsessed…but certainly not to understand them. That wouldn’t be right; it wouldn’t seem fair...
...film, then, is chiefly about Weber??€™s vision; nothing else matters quite as much, because nothing else is so definable, or real. It is Weber??€™s blessing to have the ability—through power, influence, talent, skill—to create and capture a world that meets his fantasies. It is his curse, in a way, to recognize the limits of that world. To be sure, it is beautiful, refined, and spectacular…but it is also utterly unachievable, utterly false...
...Weber??€™s classmate forward Katy Cross has 28 points on the year, already setting a new single-season scoring record for Penn. Another freshman sensation, forward Rachelle Snyder, has 23 points...