Friday, October 15, 2010

PIRANHA (3D)

what is blood in the water?-----it is what we have expressed-----our words as they spool out-----into the clear fluid of the sayable-----call forth misapprehension & rejection & perversion-----to mow the flesh from our startled bodies-----a skeleton has nowhere to recoil-----how sensitive is bone-----the guy in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt-----nods to me-----and I back-----are they desperate I wonder-----Jerry O’Connell Richard Dreyfuss Ving Rhames-----or Elisabeth Shue and Christopher Lloyd-----how did they face each other-----who last met on the set-----of Back to the Future II------and Back to the Future III-----(shot at the same time, remember)-----the piranha are from the past-----an earthquake opens a rift to a long-buried chamber-----primal justice flows into an amoral present-----spring break-----O’Connell a Girls Gone Wild-style video director-----for whom two pneumatic nymphs perform-----a girl-on-girl full-frontal swim-dance-----in eerie, lovely Esther Williams light-----seen on his monitor and our 3D-----and the piranha-cam (loud and fast)-----what we feast our eyes on-----they devour-----and the director they take from the waist down-----cut to his penis floating past-----and a piranha swims up and gulps it-----and burps it out again-----it works in context-----meanwhile at the dance party on the docks-----the fish attack in force-----from body shots to shots of bodies-----the carnage like a war zone-----violated human forms-----gaping wounds and severed limbs-----a bigger more collective guilt than brings the birds-----in The Birds----yet for all that somehow vague-----when Shue wields the taser-----I think what is the taser-----it must be the seizure-----“every sublime thought is accomplished”-----Baudelaire-----“by a more or less violent nervous shock”-----after which a calm descends-----after being rattled being receptive-----after being tense being talky-----after being sick being easy-----after being guilty being generous-----after having said being silent-----goodbye to summer-----cheated with the Walter Reade the other night-----perfection was in town-----I ask you-----is Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale not-----the most bittersweet fucking movie ever made?

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