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>>An imbibition matrix is a gelatin relief obtained either by dichromate sensitization, tanning development, tanning bleaching, or by softening with hydrogen peroxide. >>The gelatin relief, dyed with a soluble dye and still wet, placed in contact with another gelatin layer transfers part of its dye quickly forming an image. >>The gelatin forming the relief is generally hardened. This hardening increases the firmness of the latter which enables the two films to be readily separated after transfer and gives sharper images. It reduces the swelling of the gelatin. >>The amount of dye absorbed is greater at the surface than deeper down, but the maximum concentration is reached slightly below the surface. The amount of dye absorbed by the gelatin increases with the concentration of the bath. Normally the curve as a function of this concentration reaches a maximum and above a critical point it is useless to increase the concentration, as the basic groups of the gelatin become saturated. >> The transfer layer can be made of soft gelatin or of gelatin containing a mordant which can increase the rate of dye diffusion: alumina, cuprous thiocyanate, lead or copper ferrocyanide, etc. If the thickness of the transfer layer is equal to that of the matrix, and if the gelatins are of the same type, transfer of dye stops when the dye concentration in the matrix has dropped to 50%. >> The transfer paper, a fixed photographic paper, has a plain gelatin layer which is impregnated with a mordant using the following solution: [see other posts on webionaire ] -- Notice it isn't "acid-mordanted"

A western film set in Montana, filmed in New Zealand. A re-westernized examination, so the meta goes, about machismo — destructive mannerisms of maleness.

The movie unrolls like a silent era film. Every plot point made in pantomime deliberateness. So much so, you know by the middle of the movie what the ending will be. Unless, as my gang said, you sit in the back of the bus.

Wyoming in New Zealand. Coming to terms with changes of an age. A movie I’d hoped to rewatch. Instead, it is a movie I watched, will consider, probably not watch again. I’ve too many other films, books, tasks to do. I don’t think I will get more from another watching than from some other film a first time.

The movie in one scene: the rabbit in the pile of timbers. By now the masculine and the feminine are coming together to stick a post into the hole. A rabbit runs under a pile of timbers. A game begins: toss timbers aside until the rabbit runs.

He can’t. He is injured. The female man lifts the rabbit to comfort it — seeing it is injured, snaps its neck.

The clear morality point: men kill the weak . These two men are gay. One clearly, the other remaining hidden, like a dog in the distant hill— only some can see.

Not an easy point for the larger audience: the dangerous persons in this film are gay. perhaps that is just the contrarian me. The widower’s son is the killer.

Toxic masculinity – come upance, originally told in 1967 by Thomas Savage. The movie is composed with simplified symbolism. References to the dead, the posers, the educated seer. It is of its time, the fading sixties, and the looking back to a baby-boomer whistle vision of the 20s.

Those who liked the film:

>> On April 6, 2023, it ranked number 15 on The Hollywood Reporter‘s list of the “50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far),” calling it a “brilliantly uncomfortable chamber piece about corrosive masculinity fed by sexual repression” and a “psychodrama whose epic scope is echoed in its majestic landscapes.”

>>August 24, 2023, it ranked number 8 on Collider‘s list of “The 20 Best Drama Movies of the 2020s So Far,” saying that Campion “unravels an understated love story in the heart of the American west, and shows how forcing someone to conform can lead to tragic circumstances.”

>> The March 2022 issue of New York magazine included the film as one of “The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars”.