In the beginning there was Grand Illusion at the Film Forum
I’d seen it before but never quite this way.
You were the expert, a Ph.D in film, your favorite scene:
Two free soldiers walking toward freedom in the vast whiteness…
How did it feel to pull the plug
to end the life that gave you yours?
How did it feel to break your own heart
and set yourself free all at once?
Into the whiteness, there is freedom there,
Freedom you said you could not deal with
Drama in your life, a profession darling,
Your specialization.
You are an artist restricting an audience to your choosing.
From time to time I wonder, who’s in your audience now?
With whom do you present your Grand Illusions?
Inventing Maria McCabe 