John Godfrey
A Pound Of Flesh
(selected scenes from the movie of the same name)
No gentle rain from heaven but a clear blue sky, just as in
Manhattan three mornings earlier; the same feeling of unreality
too, and that sensation of being felled, of also having been
on the trajectory of something not seen coming.
That’s scene one, in which they’re returning homewards
on a country lane — not much dialogue here — and everything
outside the car so visibly unchanged, conspiring to be
exactly the same as usual, so unrepentantly normal.
In the second scene our heroine — for it is she — is on
a trolley being wheeled down a long white corridor while he
watches in silence, a bit-part player for the moment,
ore wishing the bloody director would cut that swelling music.
There’s nudity in scene three — essential to the plot — and she
accepted this when pitched into the part. She’s in the bath;
a glimpse of fading scars, left side, inner quadrant:
less than a pound — but still closest to the heart.
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