It was hard enough to read this part, imagine how filtered the audience would be watching women getting anally raped and murdered for an hour straight. The movie would be notorious
Bolano is too sexist and homophobic for modern soi audiences. White liberal women, who pretty much control the culture with their tears and scolding, would not allow this to get made.
It's the number of the beast (666), but Bolano really wanted to emphasize how scary his book was so he put 2 in front of it (2666) so that it doubled the number of the beast.
I don't think it's possible because the stories they would want to focus the most on have zero resolution. There are no bad guys or wins or losses in the part about the murders/rapes. The critics would pretty much be like a season of The Affair. Fate could be cool with the right casting and directing - either as a standalone film or short film. Amalfitano is too self obsessed of a book. The last book would be something Kate Winslet would star in.
I think the best way to do it is combine books 1, 3, and 4.
>It's the number of the beast (666), but Bolano really wanted to emphasize how scary his book was so he put 2 in front of it (2666) so that it doubled the number of the beast.
666 represents the end of the world and he wrote/published the book in the 2000's. His home country had gone to such shit that he saw it as the beginning of the end for Mexico. That's why it's titled 2666.
Bolano is too sexist and homophobic for modern soi audiences. White liberal women, who pretty much control the culture with their tears and scolding, would not allow this to get made.
I'm not so sure about that. Liz was the strongest of the four critics with two of them simping for her. Then those two both intellectually and emotionally broke when they realized the woman they were sharing actually didn't want anything longterm with any of them, and ultimately went for the cripple.
The part about the murders relates is just objective "reporting" and critique of how savage his country had once again become.
>an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom
Honestly one of the best sentences written in the past 100 years and extremely relevant now. We have three monitors going on at once 1 for Cinemaphile to watch cartel torture 1 for pirated movies and tv and 1 for porn or video games
A dying Bolano literally pleaded with is publisher to release the book as an individual five novels to build up the hype and hopefully sell the rights to a studio so his kids could make as much money as possible because he saw how fricked up things are getting.
The dude wanted to be a poet but also didn't want to be poor so said "frick i I guess i'll be an author" and wrote the most critically acclaimed work in decades. Imagine being that talented and that in touch with "art" all the while raising a family in backward fricking Mexico. Of course he provided zero narrative payoff because that's how he saw life.
It was the closest Bolano could come to finishing it before he died, but if people think the lack of resolution in the stories are proof of "literally unfinished" then the obvious theme went over their heads.
It's literally about hell on earth and how there is no resolution to life. That was the point of the detached breakdown of the murders in book 4.
>Four days after the discovery of the body of Guadalupe Guzman Prieto, the body of Jazmín Torres Dorantes, also eleven years old, was found on the eastern slopes of Cerro Estrella. The cause of death was determined to be hypovolemic shock, occasioned by the more than fifteen stabs she had been dealt by her attacker or attackers. The veganal and anal swabs established that she had been raped several times. The body was fully dressed: khaki sweatshirt, jeans, and cheap sneakers. The girl lived in the western part of the city, in Colonia Morelos, and she had been kidnapped twenty days before, although the case hadn’t been publicized. The police arrested eight young men from Colonia Estrella, members of a gang involved in car theft and small-time drug dealing, as the perpetrators of the crime. Three were transferred to juvenile court and the other five ended up being held in the Santa Teresa penitentiary, although there was no conclusive evidence against them.
>Cinemaphile thread on Cinemaphile
Crossboard threads are always the best, I guess because nobody actually knows about the supposed chosen focus of any individual board. Give it to me straight, should I read this? I'm already damn near ready to eat a slug, will book 4 push me over? Cause I can't kill myself for awhile yet.
>should I read this?
Why do people ask shit like this? I'll never understand. If a movie or book sounds good, watch or read a little bit of it and if you're enjoying just finish the fricking thing.
Jesus christ.
>should I read this?
Why do people ask shit like this? I'll never understand. If a movie or book sounds good, watch or read a little bit of it and if you're enjoying just finish the fricking thing.
Jesus christ.
The one that stuck with me was the description of the tourist (can't remember if white or not) who was described as having a record amount of like 30 unique semen samples inside her
Sounds like some third world cringe to me
probably within the next 10 years unironically.
lat am lit is a gold mine for hbo / new film because it hasn't been fully exxxxploited yet
>Hourlong episode of women being butchered
Cinemaphile would love it
It was hard enough to read this part, imagine how filtered the audience would be watching women getting anally raped and murdered for an hour straight. The movie would be notorious
>three hours of a schizo pissing in churches
nah
Bolano is too sexist and homophobic for modern soi audiences. White liberal women, who pretty much control the culture with their tears and scolding, would not allow this to get made.
Latinx writers get a pass
He was pretty much a Spainiard. Plus look at what gays did to Chappelle. The woke have never been so emboldened.
forgot how much he looks like jonathan pryce
what does the title mean?
It's the number of the beast (666), but Bolano really wanted to emphasize how scary his book was so he put 2 in front of it (2666) so that it doubled the number of the beast.
I don't think it's possible because the stories they would want to focus the most on have zero resolution. There are no bad guys or wins or losses in the part about the murders/rapes. The critics would pretty much be like a season of The Affair. Fate could be cool with the right casting and directing - either as a standalone film or short film. Amalfitano is too self obsessed of a book. The last book would be something Kate Winslet would star in.
I think the best way to do it is combine books 1, 3, and 4.
>It's the number of the beast (666), but Bolano really wanted to emphasize how scary his book was so he put 2 in front of it (2666) so that it doubled the number of the beast.
666 represents the end of the world and he wrote/published the book in the 2000's. His home country had gone to such shit that he saw it as the beginning of the end for Mexico. That's why it's titled 2666.
I'm not so sure about that. Liz was the strongest of the four critics with two of them simping for her. Then those two both intellectually and emotionally broke when they realized the woman they were sharing actually didn't want anything longterm with any of them, and ultimately went for the cripple.
The part about the murders relates is just objective "reporting" and critique of how savage his country had once again become.
This book was such a fricking waste of time with absolutely zero narrative payoff
filtered
>an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom
Honestly one of the best sentences written in the past 100 years and extremely relevant now. We have three monitors going on at once 1 for Cinemaphile to watch cartel torture 1 for pirated movies and tv and 1 for porn or video games
A dying Bolano literally pleaded with is publisher to release the book as an individual five novels to build up the hype and hopefully sell the rights to a studio so his kids could make as much money as possible because he saw how fricked up things are getting.
The dude wanted to be a poet but also didn't want to be poor so said "frick i I guess i'll be an author" and wrote the most critically acclaimed work in decades. Imagine being that talented and that in touch with "art" all the while raising a family in backward fricking Mexico. Of course he provided zero narrative payoff because that's how he saw life.
true. it's literally unfinished. savage detectives is great but i dunno why soibois and Cinemaphiletards jerk off this meme piece of shit.
>it's literally unfinished
so?
>It's literally unfinished
It was the closest Bolano could come to finishing it before he died, but if people think the lack of resolution in the stories are proof of "literally unfinished" then the obvious theme went over their heads.
It's literally about hell on earth and how there is no resolution to life. That was the point of the detached breakdown of the murders in book 4.
>Four days after the discovery of the body of Guadalupe Guzman Prieto, the body of Jazmín Torres Dorantes, also eleven years old, was found on the eastern slopes of Cerro Estrella. The cause of death was determined to be hypovolemic shock, occasioned by the more than fifteen stabs she had been dealt by her attacker or attackers. The veganal and anal swabs established that she had been raped several times. The body was fully dressed: khaki sweatshirt, jeans, and cheap sneakers. The girl lived in the western part of the city, in Colonia Morelos, and she had been kidnapped twenty days before, although the case hadn’t been publicized. The police arrested eight young men from Colonia Estrella, members of a gang involved in car theft and small-time drug dealing, as the perpetrators of the crime. Three were transferred to juvenile court and the other five ended up being held in the Santa Teresa penitentiary, although there was no conclusive evidence against them.
it's pretentious shit
>Cinemaphile thread on Cinemaphile
Crossboard threads are always the best, I guess because nobody actually knows about the supposed chosen focus of any individual board. Give it to me straight, should I read this? I'm already damn near ready to eat a slug, will book 4 push me over? Cause I can't kill myself for awhile yet.
If you've never read Bolano, read either The Savage Detectives or Distant Star before reading 2666.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
It's like a thousand pages isn't it?
Yes. But again you are free to start it and nobody is going to get mad if you put it down because you're not liking it.
Fair play.
>should I read this?
Why do people ask shit like this? I'll never understand. If a movie or book sounds good, watch or read a little bit of it and if you're enjoying just finish the fricking thing.
Jesus christ.
The one that stuck with me was the description of the tourist (can't remember if white or not) who was described as having a record amount of like 30 unique semen samples inside her
I'm almost 40 and sitting here sad that a 2666 post didn't get more discussion. What am I doing with my life you guys
People on Cinemaphile don't read, but also you should not come to this website anymore.
>Cinemaphile or even Cinemaphile
>ever discussing a book that isn't blood meridian or ameican psycho