I started this project several years ago, but never transfered the the original VHS footage to digital media for editing until this summer ('08). I quickly found out that I really had no idea how to operate the editing software I had purchased years ago, final cut express, for the purpose of editing this very footage. Final cut is not nearly as intuitive to learn and use as is imovie, so.... in all honesty, couldn't wait to start working on the long 'lost' footage and cut this version in imovie, which then became a sketch or outline for the final cut version.
This film is very dark, and yet, there is also some humor in it as well. I realize fully that for many people it is just incomprehensible and disturbing for 'evil' and 'good' to coexist harmoniously.... much less envision that themes such as suicide, futility, temptation, junk food compensation, inner struggle, and sublimation... can coexist harmoniously with beauty and humor (particularly if the humor is at all tongue-in-cheek), much less get a real grasp on the concept that their harmonious coexistence can very well generate that very same beauty and humor.
What the final version will end up being, I can't really say. It's been so many years since I started working on this that I am not able to see or think about it in the same exact way.
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