Thursday, January 5, 2012

sometimes water turns to ice

What do you think about quasi ghosts?

I didn't even know that 'quasi ghosts' were a thing. Is that some sort of an apparational afterthought?

I sort of had a train of thought I was going to go with on this, leading into 80's cult-classic movies and my obsession with quirk, but then I did a Google search for 'quasi ghosts' to see if they were, in fact, a thing. And the first result was this little video.


It intrigued me. It's not a professional job by any stretch of the imagination. The footage is grainy and the cuts sometimes don't make that much sense and I'm not sure what's up with the mirroring of particular parts... but it works. I don't know why, but it works.

My favorite part is where the boy is on the escalator and he smiles at something just as he reaches the bottom. It's right in the midst of that silly mirroring, but it just is somehow clicks, just jumps out at me. It somehow was a powerful moment.  I just find the whole thing strangely compelling. I could just watch it over and over again and I don't know why.

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