Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water
running I hear cruel cuts like pencil points fine sharpened snapping
against a smooth white page.Quick rinsing, covered now and tense, all
stiff, peering alarmed from broken privacy, I for a moment harden, with nor one clue,
against....
The film had
stiff competition in the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards,
running against Kelly Reichhart's sublime Wendy and Lucy and Lance Hammer's powerful, contemplative Ballast, which speaks to the idiosyncratic brilliance of Aronofsky and Rourke's collaboration.