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Don delillo omega point6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He has gone to Elster's house in the desert to persuade him to participate in a documentary.Īs with Falling Man and Underworld, DeLillo is once again spinning off semi-actualities. Finley is a filmmaker whose company is unpromisingly called Deadbeat Films. ![]() Elster is an elderly theorist of war who was one of the architects of Iraq. Jim Finley, the novel's narrator, sits and watches the frames click past the same way that Richard Elster watches his life slip by. Anthony Perkins turns his head in five incremental movements rather than one continuous motion." The man could count the gradations in the movement of Anthony Perkins' head. That fascination bookends Point Omega, whose beginning and ending both feature 24 Hour Psycho, an installation at the Museum of Modern Art which slows down Hitchcock's Psycho to the point where it takes 24 hours to watch the entire movie. He built one entire novel (Running Dog) around the search for a 35mm print from Hitler's private film collection. He's fascinated by their physicality, their visual attributes - the dance of the grain as the frames pass by, the way that film has of capturing lost time. Not in any conventional way - as artifacts of celebrity, or even of sociology. Scribner 112 pages $24.ĭon DeLillo has always been fascinated by movies. ![]()
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