donna tartt's the secret history
having more-or-less enjoyed the little friend and being faced with a bookstore with a poor fiction section, i grabbed this the other day for the plane ride home. its story of five classics students killing one of their friends (don't worry, they tell you that on page one) seemed awfully familiar, and i was half-wondering where i'd read a book like this before. on page 102, it hit me--i've read THIS book before! i have no recollection of when or why, and until page 102 would have sworn that the first i'd heard of donna tartt was when the little friend was released. weird! if you have any information on when i read this book (it was published in 1992, so god only knows), please tell me, b/c it is driving me nuts.
so yeah, i was a little distracted from page 102 on. let me assure you that the whys and hows and what-happened-nexts of this collegiate murder make a pretty riveting story. very, uh, what's that movie w/ the really long shot at the beginning? rope? yeah, very that.
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Rope actually comprises very long shots all the way through. It was an experiment: every shot is as long as they could get before the film ran out (I think 10 minutes). Then to change the film they would focus on something dark like a wall or the back of someone's jacket. The effect is as if the entire movie was one continuous take. --Sarah
oh, haha. can you tell we only watched the beginning shot in my film class in college? :)
thanks for the info!!
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