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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  Stendahl Syndrome.
I never thought of it being a real thing that would happen to holidaymakers on a regular basis, just a fabricated plot point in one of Dario Argento's lesser films. |
I'm into art and try to do art that expresses my mentality, i've experienced this to a lesser extent than Dem on numerous occasions.
Not totally swooning or becoming detached from reality but seeing a piece of art and being overwhelmed by it, to the point where you think you need to move on as your brain is spinning out.
Some obvious ones were optical art, others were just being confronted by a picture that enraptured me, there was a extra large one by Titian that he did when his sight was going and the looseness of it caught me in a spell, seeing a Francis Bacon picture that made me recollect my childhood, or just being caught up in brushstrokes.
Maybe this is why i've always liked Dario's film and think it's one of his better later films.
You can't deny that art played a massive part in his earlier films, the gallery in Bird with a crystal Plumage, the Deep Red painting reveal of the killer, The sculpture at the end of Tenebrae.
That's why to me Stendahl seems like an important Argento film, it's more personal even if it doesn't always work at times.