Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet. |
The two men led us in silence, moving like two specters from something out of a ghost story. |
But the movie is mostly about people seeing ghost images on TVs, seeing specters and electronics turning themselves on and off. |
Spirits and specters do not only play an important part in Johnathan's story, they also operate on a metanarrative level. |
Any number of specters could be floating in the cold, thin air or cavorting among icily twinkling stars. |
In such a light, psychology would be the science of the double, of specters, and every photograph a double exposure. |