The difference between what’s captured in this moving image, “Remote Control Cement Truck”…

…and what’s captured in this poster for one of Gong Li’s weaker films, Zhou Yu’s Train…
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The difference? No difference exists between what’s happening above and what’s happening below. The pleasure of the turning agitator mirrors the pleasure of the leg-locked lovers.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

24 replies on “One Love”

  1. I love you, Charles. None of this shit makes any fucking sense, there’s more goddamned ruminating on concrete, it’s the most boring thing posted all day on slog, and yet the comments are the most hillarious ones I’ve read in ages. The levels of predictable back-and-forth become some kind of absurdist comedy I can’t deny myself.

    Bravo Charles, Bravo Commentators!

  2. The difference between the day I don’t have to worry about accidentally reading your posts as I scroll by… and the day my next door neighbor’s pit bull dies…

    The difference? No difference exists.

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