The Many Meanings of TÁR | Full Documentary

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  @stofu92 · 3 years ago

  One insightful comment I saw is how the film's editing contributes to Tár's feeling of time...over time. In the beginning, when she feels in control of the present, takes are long and cuts are relatively infrequent. She is in control and so time revolves around her. By the end of the film, days would be shown for mere seconds. As Tar loses control over time, she no longer gets to control when it begins or ends. She is merely a bit player.

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  @sarahs.6838 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I interviewed a female conductor of a Legend of Zelda concert when I was a journalism student. She told me she and the performers all had a clicker/metronome in their ear to keep time with the visuals. So, at the end, Lydia is now being controlled by time and, in some ways, has made herself redundant, which in a way, she always was. <br><br>Fantastic essay!

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  @kelseycarlisle6916 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a classical music student, I don&apos;t necessarily identify with the &quot;dating students&quot; part of the movie, but the way the masterclass is portrayed when she is not familiar with the &quot;new music&quot; hits right home. Most of these professors and prominent classical musicians have no idea how to approach music outside of the usual canon. For many of them, if it was not composed between the 17th and 19th centuries, it&apos;s nothing more than a novelty. I went out of my way to try to play newer works by American composers, especially Black composers, and it was very apparent in lessons that I had done more research on the music than the people who were supposed to teach it to me. I have never met a music student in my own education that wouldn&apos;t appreciate the music of someone like Bach because of their race, gender, sexuality, etc., but the disconnect and false authority over the music presented in that scene is present every day in the classroom.

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  @LBAW · 3 years ago

  A thing I noticed was when Tar lost control of time it was a VERY quick fall. Like, the fallout and when the consequences get really serious for her is in the last 50 minutes of the film. When her time was up it was UP.

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  @lloroshastar6347 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s wonderful to hear about America&apos;s first African-American filmmaker being a silent filmmaker, because what&apos;s really depressing about being British is that the first black British filmmaker, Horace Ové, directed his first narrative feature length film in 1976. Not only that, but the film was banned for a few years by the people who initially backed it (the British Film Institute) because it featured police brutality.

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  @miss-behaving901 · 3 years ago

  I saw another video where someone said that what makes Tar so interesting especially with the twist of making the character female instead of male. That it proves that power transcends gender and shows how patrichary is really about power and can be upheld by both men and women and it&apos;s about the system itself because in a twisted way, anyone can hold power.

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  @JessieGender1 · 3 years ago

  Quite literally, every time I watch Maggie talk about a movie, I feel like I&apos;ve learned so much more then I ever could have on my own and I wanna just go back and rewatch it with Maggie&apos;s commentary in mind. You kill it every time &lt;3

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  @theenglishman · 3 years ago

  Something else to consider:<br><br>Lydia is reduced to conducting video game music on a click track. Composing dynamic video game music can be very creatively liberating - <b>but</b> it requires working with audio engineers and programmers to shape the music to the player&apos;s actions, and trust in the player themselves that their gameplay will make their music sound good.<br><br>In other words, things that Lydia would never be able to do. She must be in total control of the speed, length, and context of her work.

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  @acollierastro · 3 years ago

  The first all female space walk was scheduled in 2019(!) and was then canceled because they realized they didn’t have two medium sized space suits…and yet people claim nothing is holding women back…<br><br><br>This video was so good. Instantly one of my favorites from your channel!

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  @maxmccarty3131 · 3 years ago

  Great episode Maggie! It&apos;s fascinating to see this film become something embraced by conservatives for the isolated scene where she &quot;DESTROYS&quot; that student with &quot;FACTS AND LOGIC&quot; when really she&apos;s just providing a twisted justification for her own bad behavior while exerting control. Such a damning scene, and really neat that Field shoots it in a single take while Lydia is still very in control of time. Really appreciated you identifiying all the ways Lydia distorts the truth with her references to classical composers/conductors throughout because that stuff flew way over my head!

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  @MaggieMaeFish · 3 years ago (edited)

  The video got copyright claimed, but that&apos;s over and NOW IT&apos;S VIEWABLE EVERYWHERE!! It&apos;s time to Tar! And Tar to time!!!

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  @revevague6256 · 3 years ago

  Finished &apos;Tár&quot; &nbsp;yesterday after watching your video, both are fantastic! As a musician I&apos;m always hesitant to watch films like this and &quot;Whiplash&quot; ( I went to music school and don&apos;t need to revisit some of that...) but this one really stayed with me. <br><br>As talented as Lydia is, she&apos;s also a masterful manipulator; there&apos;s so much about musician politics in the film that feels so familiar. I have more friends than I can count who should be household names in the jazz world but simply don&apos;t have a selfish bone in their body; they could never behave like Lydia. It&apos;s inferred that she clawed to the top of the hierarchy and placed loyalists (like the 1st violinist, her wife) in key positions to consolidate her power. I wonder how many artistic institutions are much the same? I was stunned that her wife isn&apos;t very upset about her indiscretions, just whether her position is now vulnerable. Sharon is still playing first chair after Lydia is replaced, and she even mentions how their relationship is transactional at an earlier scene in their home.<br><br>When Lydia arrives home after her exile, the scene watching Bernstein VHS clip is powerful; it confirms in me that she really does in fact love, understand and NEED music in her life but her brother calling her &quot;Linda&quot; moments later tell me her aspirations, reinvention &nbsp;(&quot;American Dream&quot;) and need to succeed at any cost end up destroying her. A lot to unpack. Looking forward to your next video Maggie!

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