7.10.2006

the art of endings

Very interesting article about the tension between finding closure in an ending to a work of art (mostly talks about films but also music, ballet etc) and forcing an audience to find its own ending and draw its own conclusions.

2 Comments:

Blogger Elizabeth said...

"By not ending their stories, they put art back on the level of life, and it is on that level that it has the most to say to us."

- wow. how true. so we have some thinking about our beginnings and endings!!!

4:15 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think that there are ways of ending a narrative without being pat - that's what I'm most interested in. You feel like, oof we got somewhere, but where... that's still up in the air.

8:14 a.m.  

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