Merit Coba

Merit: “Venice is actually a kind of strange place for it looks like someone forgot to add new buildings to it after the sixteen century or so. So it is a place that seems forever in old times.  So it is a good background for eerie and strange novels, movies and assorted imaginations. Of course.. there is Death in Venice the book by Thomas Mann and of course: Don’t look now…”

Kris: “That is the kind of movie that slowly gets appreciated more and more until everyone gets fed up and it either gets damned for being overrated or becomes a cult classic… or both.”

Merit: “Do you like my picture??”

Kris: “Your picture? I somehow spot the hand of Taubie in this.”

Merit:  “Well, I thought of it. Making pictures takes a lot of thinking….”

Kris: “So you does the thinking. And Taubie does?”

Merit: “She makes them pictures..”

Kris: “But no thinking?”

Merit: “Ehm in another way… you know.. like… well,  let’s have a look at the next picture.”

Kris : “What is this… and what has this to do with Venice?”

Merit: “That is the book were the story of the movie comes from..So actually Daphne thought of it.. and Roeg made it into a movie. A bit like me and Taubie. I thought of the pictures.. she made them.”

Merit: “So Venice is another possible candidate for being the Capital City of Urupe.  Like it has got it all: books, movies, water, boats, historical buildings and landmarks. And you know a lot of Italians went to the US, so there is a sort of intimate connection there.”

Kris: “I wouldn’t know. That movie makes the city pretty scary.. I mean if you see a little person wearing a red coat then you better run.. Did they ever get that killer?”

Merit: “It was just a movie.. besides.. that movie was made like in the last century… decades ago.. Bet if there was a killer he or she will be pretty dead by now.”

Kris: “You never know.. some people might not be people at all..but something supernatural. Like ghosts… or devils or demons.”

Merit: “I think we getting a bit in the depressed zone.. let’s go for an ice-cream.. Which btw Italians are also famous for.. Italian icecream!”

“Yesah!”