A tribute to Romy Schneider.
Music by Eric Satie, “Gnossienne No. 5,” played by Pascal Rogé
You are very young and it is a Sunday afternoon. Your parents pass off one of the films in the Sissi trilogy to you as a guilty pleasure.
The “spiked fence” scene is at 4:27
You’re older now. You see a spiked fence in the Hitchcock/Dali film Spellbound. You are – of course – unaware of the Dali connection.
You’re seventeen. Your mother tells you the sad story of Romy Schneider who killed herself after her son David-Christopher had accidentally been killed by trying to climb over a spiked fence.
The”spiked fence” scene is at 2:38
Still older. The spiked fence again. This time in The Virgin Suicides.
Romy Schneider would have been 70 today. Her son 41. Click the images to see the YouTube footage.
You read this and you just love the point of view!
It’s called the second-person and although Ambrose Bierce said that “the frank yet graceful use of “I” distinguishes a good writer from a bad,” I find the 2nd person point of view strangely compelling.