Ephemera, 07/03/23
This time: Murderer; just keep pushing; morality minus meaning.
Yesterday's Old Testament reading turned out to be the Sacrifice of Isaac, and hearing it read aloud in church for the first time since my experience with Fear & Trembling earlier this year made me realize how much of an impact SK's book had on me. Murderer, I thought.
Six episodes, about fifteen minutes each -- I'm not sure I could take much more than 90 minutes a year of Tim Robinson's brilliantly unsettling I Think You Should Leave. (And I couldn't possibly watch all 90 minutes at once.) He takes an unpredictable premise, populates it with "normal" people (read: unattractive on the screen, unremarkable in person), and then Just ... Keeps ... Pushing. The skits almost always last longer than you think they might, to an uncomfortable extent. It's an existentialist exercise in sketch comedy. You can't escape the absurdity; it just keeps unspooling.
"The post-Christian world is characterized by supercharged morality within a vacuum of meaning." (Richard Beck)
