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I mentioned it yesterday and couldn’t sleep last night for thoughts of GIFing Hal Hartley’s Trust. This was easier in Schizopolis in many ways, because Hartleys films are already focused on faces and moments. But, oh… the faces, the moments. In the kitchen this morning, in between coffee and rinsing a quart of hair gel off of Annika, I watched the last 3 minutes of the film and bawled. Schizopolis was our Saturday night party film, the “OMG you have to see this!” film, even though most people passed out or lost interest before the dentist-transmigration.
Trust came on after that, and always ended in tears. My conscious (but always denied) attempt to live in the stilted Hartley language was certainly a contributor to many of friendship disintegrating fights in college. It’s an old film – almost as old now as The Conversation was when I first saw Trust in 1998.
Even as the fashion ages into comedy, there emotional core will shift and grow with you. Here’s my attempt to do some meager justice to this in a handful of frame grabs.
The lines and music under that last GIF add everything.
“Why have you done this?”
“Done what?”
“Put up wth me like this.”
“Somebody had to.”
“But why you?”
“I just happened to be here.”
That’s pop song strength – lines that can grow with you from bleak reflection on relationships into a tear-wrenching reflection on the arbitrary unconditional love of parenthood. They just happened to be there, and I needed them.
I decided to summarize a great film using gifs.
It was a really long process that I really didn’t think would be as time consuming as it was. Maybe it was because it was my first time making a gif from video, but I really want to do this assignment over and fix a lot of mistakes I’ve made.
The film opens with Mercer, dealing with the recent death of his mother, stealing a car to find his long-lost brother. He finds a cell phone in the car that he stole, and he starts talking to the owner of the car while he’s on his roadtrip.
Kate’s voice becomes Mercer’s companion on the trip, and he starts to imagine her with him, keeping him company and helping him find his brother.
Finally, Kate finds Mercer and tries to steal her car back. Once they meet, their connection through the phone translates into a connection in person, and Kate accompanies him on the rest of his trip.
Kate, now there to accompany Mercer in person, helps him in his journey to find his brother and closure after the death of his mother.
Mercer and Arlen talk about their lives and the one thing they have in common, their mother. Afterwards, they go their separate ways.
Kate and Mercer drive back home after the long trip they took together to find themselves and each other.
