The mesmerising ending to True Detective 2. While the men die heroically making a name for themselves as Western Ideals of "being somebody",an Identity, and in deliberate contrast to the heroic climax at the half way mark of episode 4, the women walk into the Selfless pixilated anonymity of the crowd outside a corrupted America, bearing Hope in the form of a newborn,accompanied by the rhythmic beat of Lera Lynn's music. Their aim is to lose themselves,not assert themSelf. They deliberately become nothing.This is a different way and a different ideal,without Self.Its beautiful writing but not easily accessible to an American audience perhaps, so misunderstood.
Lately, words are missing form now on
Vanished in the haze of love gone wrong
There's no future, there's no past
In the present, nothing lasts
Lately, someone's missing from now on
Vanished in the haze of love gone wrong
There's no future, there's no past
In the present, nothing lasts
Lately, someone's missing from now on
Lately, I'm not feeling like myself
When I look into the glass, I see someone else
I hardly recognize this face I wear
When I stare into her eyes, I see no one there
Lately, I'm not feeling like myself
When I look into the glass, I see someone else
I hardly recognize this face I wear
When I stare into her eyes, I see no one there
Lately, I'm not feeling like myself
Lately, I've been losing all my time
All that mattered to me slipped my mind
Every time I hit another town
Strangers appear to lock me down
Lately I've been losing all my time
All that mattered to me slipped my mind
Every time I hit another town
Strangers appear to lock me down
Lately I've been losing all my time
The mystery that no one knows
Where does love go when it goes?
The mystery that no one knows
Where does love go when it goes?
Where does love go when it goes?
The mystery that no one knows
Where does love go when it goes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA_aKnhdWaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjl6mSO6Fow
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Another writer ahead of himself is Alan Bennet,still mesmerising us with his elegant understatemented style in the BBC film production of his play "Lady in a Van". It was he who innovated style with his "Talking Heads" monologues in 1988. The critics didnt like them at the time either,but now they are a classic that inspires many who follow.In this work Bennet also explores the question of identity and what it is to "make a name"or "lose yourSelf". Bennet is making his own name as a writer while Ms Shepherd is trying to lose herself, but the lady in the van was more than she appears to be......
Trailer to "Lady in a Van" here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8tMziteZM
Maggie Smith shines in it.
All based on the true story of a woman who lived in a van in the driveway of Alan Bennet's house for 15years.
"There was a gap between our social position and our social obligation.It was in this gap that Ms Shepherd was able to live.......I mull it over,wondering at the bold life she has had and how it contrasts with my own timid way.....and i see how the location of Miss Shepherd and the van in front but to the side of where I write is the location of most of the stuff i write about: that too is to the side and never what faces me....
Her grave is unmarked,but I think as someone so reluctant to admit a name or divulge information about herself,she would not have been displeased by that."
The real Ms Shepherd:
