Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself. This is most certainly a film about loss—the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child—but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding. A Netflix release.
并不太熟悉狄迪恩,是在写一篇关于服装的论文时了解到她,可能会去读一读她的作品。
年轻时真的太迷人了。“那不是汤那是冰淇淋 ”“我们想让她多吃点 体重只有34公斤” 爱喝冰可乐,写不下去把稿子放进冰箱
最近极度厌恶自己越发套路的写作方式,哪怕别人对我的稿件也没提出过高要求,快停笔大半个月了,寻思还这么写下去不然就别写了,但 Joan Didion 算是近日收获的灵感之一,从工作方式到生活方式都有启迪,当然,也没那么健康,可口可乐咸杏仁,后来不吃饭体重一度低至34公斤,但她的敏锐和疏离感如此迷人,而且这种文风的确是我想要学习吸收的。
Didion是时髦的知识分子,从个人内心向外部世界的书写转变,从Vogue到The New York Times,成为社会政治的评论者、观察者、预言者,晚年亲近之人相继离去,又回到自我本身,写下关于悲恸的理解。从70年代开始34公斤的体重就没有变过,经历变故后长期只食用米粥,皮包骨的躯体,有着清晰的思维和记忆,keep writing,keep thinking。
优雅而恬淡的一生 悲喜交加 导演侄子的用意很深。看之前没想到 Joan Didion已经老了;印象中她是那么得时髦。或许时髦是一些作者的利器。她几乎同时失去丈夫和女儿后写道:“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it." 直击我2017年的体验