memento mori

Quão bom é fazer zapping por entre uma limitada escolha de quatro canais nacionais e deparar-me com este final que tanto adoro? Já me tinha esquecido que iria passar o Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)  na RTP2 mas o que é certo é que mudei precisamente no momento certo, podendo assim rever estes 20 minutos finais. E meus amigos, o quão monumental é esta longa sequência. E que dizer daquela troca de olhares alimentada pela banda-sonora do Ennio Morricone? Simplesmente genial. Assim se constrói a tensão. Diga-se de passagem que os mortos aqui não têm qualquer descanso...

Sister Alma: If she won't speak or move because she decides not to, which it must be if she isn't ill, then it shows that she is mentally very strong. I might not be equal to it.   (Persona, 1966, Ingmar Bergman)   Selma: You like the movies, don't you?  Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.  Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?  Bill Houston: Why?  Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever. (Dancer in the Dark, 2000, Lars Von Trier) George: It takes time in the morning for me to become George, time to adjust to what is expected of George and how he is to behave. By the time I have dressed and put the final layer of polish on the now slightly stiff but quite perfect George I know fully what part I'...