I sent this as a regular e-mail because I was not sure that it was suitable for use in your Letters to the Editor section (as the thinking here is
so unformed).
We assume — pray — that Lee, who never married, is being ironic; but at this point the character of Jean Louise is
so unformed it's hard to tell, and the relationship between Jean Louise and Henry — who sounds a stupendous bore — rings false.
Not exact matches
But in that case, and surely it is the root of the matter, how are we to canalize and use the rising tide of liberated consciousness, that is still
so crude and
unformed?»
I've been wondering about this myself lately — or rather, had some vague
unformed thought and wish I'd had the thought that you had that you've expressed
so beautifully in this piece of art.
so, yeah, the movie is definitely portraying him as pervy, but in a way, as you mention, that paints him as socially
unformed and too stupid to know where lines are... which is also shown by his inappropriate nudity and his child - like adoration of Phil.
However uneven they were at the start, the three young leads were irresistible simply because they were
so young,
unformed and vulnerable (like their characters).
In his
unformed mind, he can do with it what he wants,
so he revises the history of the NASA Space Program, starting with Kennedy and enrolling the likes of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Richard Nixon, to create a world in which the race to the moon was secretly a race with the Russians to bring Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) back to Earth.
Ahead of his time, with
so many vague and
unformed but interesting ideas, it is fair to say that his spatial concept foreshadowed installation and environmental art and his promotion of gesture as art prompted performance as art.
It's surprising, then, that his work remains
so accessibly priced — a result of the fact that his market is as - yet
unformed (his work has only been at auction three times, all at Phillips in this past year).
Instead of spending
so much time and energy ruminating on the past and all of the things that were wrong, Collaborative Divorce actively encourages forward thinking, focusing on the future and how that
unformed future can be better than the not -
so - great past.