There’s nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It’s like when you go to the cinema —- the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes. It doesn’t matter how many films you see —- it’s still kind of a moment.
-Johnny Greenwood, Alex Pappademas’ profile Kid A+
Davies is no stranger to flourish, though the sort that begins The Long Day Closes and invokes such triumphant Hollywood brassiness is not what one would expect from a film whose final spoken words are voiceover echoes of Bud’s drab science teacher detailing the different kinds of erosion. Angrily squeaking out his lessons in chalk, the mustachioed instructor informs the students, definitively, that there are five kinds of erosion: river, rain, glacial, wind, and marine. Naturally, the disintegration of memory and consciousness doesn’t enter into the equation, even though this is the most tangible form of erosion to most of us.
-Reverse Shot, Michael Koresky on The Long Day Closes
Erosion of moral integrity?