Kit Duckworth

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All of these films depict women choosing, oscillating, or blurring between two selves, lovers, loyalties, environments, patterns, or passions… Except for Wanda, who eludes this eternal human schema by remaining passive, propelled in a car where she sits motionless. She bets on science’s uncertainty principle, in which both the speed and the position of an object cannot be determined simultaneously; no one can pin her down so long as she keeps moving. Movies are a bit like that: a fixed beam of light that never stills. I appreciate that tension between stillness and motion here because this exercise, though it may attempt to capture the art form's trajectory, can only distill this one slippery moment in time.