So, wait, Is Tar a Ghost Story?
I watched this a few days ago and I’m still working on my official review, but there’s a really interesting aspect of the film that has plenty of folks thinking it’s actually a ghost story, or that at least some portions of the narrative only taking place in the main character’s mind.
From Slate, Don Kois runs us through the theory:
“The final act of Tár is, I think, so heightened and weird that it basically doesn’t make sense if you try to read it literally. But perhaps because the movie’s cultural questions are so fun to wrestle with, or because Field’s attention to sociological realism in the rest of the film is so acute, many viewers are determined to do so.
But when I finally watched Tár, it was the movie’s spookiness, and the uncertainty that spookiness casts over the film, that stuck with me. I think Todd Field is doing something entirely different from what almost every writer so far has thought he was doing. Field “moves smoothly from dry backstage comedy to something like gothic horror,” A.O. Scott wrote in a typically insightful review that still takes much of Tár’s “comeuppance” and the movie’s “ragged, wandering, superfluous denouement” at face value. Let’s explore the gothic horror of Tár.”
Read the whole story HERE - it’s a great read with lots of good images and GIFs.
