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I suppose I invoked them because they represent such wildly divergent sensibilities--one populist, the other defiantly highbrow--and both were united in a kind of ebullient loathing of this poor picture.
"In Belgrade," he writes, "people are defiantly dancing on the streets while 300 kilometers to the south, a genocide of African proportions is taking place."
For true instinct, you must turn to Mike Figgis, an English director ( Leaving Las Vegas , 1995, One Night Stand , 1997) who's defiantly not a player and whose pixilated, semi-autobiographical, semi-allegorical The Loss of Sexual Innocence would not have got past the mall focus groups that evidently embraced Instinct . It nearly didn't get past the screening that I caught at Manhattan's indie-friendly Angelika Film Center, which was marked by uneasy throat clearing and lots of walkouts.
They're half-right: The movie is a collision between inspiration and tastelessness, between the defiantly quirky and the wholesomely homogenized.
His own answer, maddeningly brief, invokes Archimedes' garden in Syracuse, where the philosopher worked defiantly on his theorem even as barbarians clamored at the gates.