The above image is from Mamoru Oshii's Innocence , which I got to see in a theater over the last few months. I considered writing about it below, but I don't know where I would begin. All I really want to say is that it's one of the best movies ever to see in a theater because you need a good sound system to do justice to the "Ballade of Puppets," Kenji Kawai's theme for the film. It's like being in a cave surrounded by dozens of singers desperately calling out to the gods for salvation. The Conversation (1974) Gene Hackman dresses like an upper-middle class professional in this movie, because that's where he is. Collared shirts and ties. Over it he often wears this awful coat made of thin, translucent plastic. It doesn't look good as part of his outfit, but it suits him. His business is spying on and investigating high-class people. He's working in the mud with a respectable veneer. He knows it and it bothers him. Rob...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin