Reading letters is to news from home what housework is to Jeanne Dielman.When we talk about some specific cultural spectacle we actually talk about rituals in life.Words fulfill the emptiness of space in reality/public also link space in memory/private.Ackerman create an entirely subjective film and the absent recipient is floating above the city.
“X-rays showed nothing because that thing has no bones. The only way is to operate on the person while it’s still alive. That’s the only way to save the man. That dentist died. When they opened him up, he had his belly full of snakes.”