Psychologize

The absence of psychologizing, as in Jon Jost's thematically similar and equally haunting Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977), liberates the imagination in relation to Benning's beautifully composed images, and this respect for the viewer's intelligence pays off in highly charged dividends.

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Let it be clear, however, that we are not psychologizing here; rather we are presenting at most a characteriology of thought.

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