Watched Bright Future on...some weekend. Think it was last weekend.
I'm getting increasingly impatient with movies about disaffected, disconnected youth. I can see the temptation of course - which is also, of course, why I'm impatient with these shows - wandering around as though catatonic is not the hard bit. Getting lost, whether or not in translation, isn't the hard bit. It's practically a compulsory stage of adolescence. But one should stop being a teenager at some point, should one not?
Not that I'm there yet.
There's a bit in one of James Fenton's lectures, where he's talking about Dylan Thomas's attitude towards the war. Thomas says he's tempted to participate sometimes, "but the temptation's not too strong, and the sanity of the imagination is."
Drifting around isn't particularly imaginative, is it?