https://youtu.be/JjYhqYvRJx4?si=u7gRiZYIjJhrb56B The little known but magnificent 2015 horror film "The Blackcoat's Daughter", AKA "February" in the USA (available on Youtube, as "February", for free for now, so get it while you can) directed by Osgood Perkins, son of "Psycho" star Anthony Perkins is, if scrutinised in the blinding white light of plausibility, wholly unlikely to survive as watchable for more than half an hour. Yet, and here's the important point, who should care for cinematic plausibility? Absolutely no-one, should be your considered answer. All truly great filmmakers have scorned the notion of plausibility, from the great Anglo American director Alfred Hitchcock, to the several makers of the Marx Brothers farces, to the vivid dreamscapes created by Daavid Lynch. Hitchcock in fact even went so far as to verbally articulate the anti-plausible aesthetic, formulating his disdain for the plausibility-obsessed in the well documented series of interviews conducted by Francois Truffaut at the butt end of the 60s.
It's no Rumblefish, but then again, what is? Fun fact for cineastes: Osgood Perkins is NOT one of the two orthopaedists after whom is named Osgood Schlatter Disease, which causes pain and swelling below the knee joint where the patellar tendon attaches to the top of the shinbone (tibia) at a spot called the tibial tuberosity. I have been called many things in my day, but a tibial tuberosity hasn't been one of them.
Further, without plausibility, there is often no feasibility, and I, for one, have no wish to live in a society lacking feasibility.
It's odd you should mention Osgood Schlatter Syndrome. When around 10, I was taken to the family doctor's surgery to have examined a grotesque swelling at, or just below, the patella. Dr Rushton, whose bedside manner left quite a bit to be desired, mumbled something about Osgood Schlatter. Being around 10 and therefore of limited perspicacity, and recently having conceived a passion for Chelsea Football Club, I assumed he meant something to the effect that my condition indicated I'd never be in a position to emulate the feats of my new hero, CDC'S centre forward Peter Osgood, an aspiration which, to my feeble 10 year old intellect, wasn't inherently ludicrous. I don't think I've really ever gotten over it, to be honest.
It's no Rumblefish, but then again, what is? Fun fact for cineastes: Osgood Perkins is NOT one of the two orthopaedists after whom is named Osgood Schlatter Disease, which causes pain and swelling below the knee joint where the patellar tendon attaches to the top of the shinbone (tibia) at a spot called the tibial tuberosity. I have been called many things in my day, but a tibial tuberosity hasn't been one of them.
Further, without plausibility, there is often no feasibility, and I, for one, have no wish to live in a society lacking feasibility.
It's odd you should mention Osgood Schlatter Syndrome. When around 10, I was taken to the family doctor's surgery to have examined a grotesque swelling at, or just below, the patella. Dr Rushton, whose bedside manner left quite a bit to be desired, mumbled something about Osgood Schlatter. Being around 10 and therefore of limited perspicacity, and recently having conceived a passion for Chelsea Football Club, I assumed he meant something to the effect that my condition indicated I'd never be in a position to emulate the feats of my new hero, CDC'S centre forward Peter Osgood, an aspiration which, to my feeble 10 year old intellect, wasn't inherently ludicrous. I don't think I've really ever gotten over it, to be honest.
Unless I’m mistaken, “February” isn’t available on YouTube here. (unless I simply can’t find it.)
Have a look under "The Blackcoat's Daughter'? That might work, possibly, though not necessarily probably.