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Movies -- "Spa Night"

I like business.  The table is arranged, or I hear dishes being scrubbed.  The camera moves in to the wall so the light can breathe.  In the background also they inhale and exhale; towels scrape their skin. "Pan over all the traffic on the street; see the grass and hear the shuffle of shoes over cement."  -- Right now it could be the rhythm of fingers and keys, the key-hole in the coffee-can, two pill bottles that just happen to be where they are, the stapler, above, I never use, a tube of cream in front of it, lying on its side, the air conditioner's remote control.  Lists of objects and a catalog of their relationships has an appeal.  The more details, the closer I get to what's real.  So a TV screen is just a window, a wandering eye.  It looks at us from a distance, but consistently, with due attention.  It is close enough so that we can hear each other speak, but far enough away to keep us from speaking to anyone but ourselves.  Everything can be represented, but what's represented should endure.  Most of all, it should be itself, and it receives no help from instruments.  A boy who is distressed scrapes himself with the sponge until his skin is raw.  A boy who is ashamed and angry shoves the owner's keys back at him on the desk.  Everything is recorded and presented without comment.  I'm drawn in because I want to see, and that I see is all of the request.  No one understands what has been faithfully recorded, but the anatomy of it is laid bare for all to inspect.

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From "长恨歌“

馬嵬坡下泥土中,   不見玉顏空死處。 君臣相顧盡霑衣,   東望都門信馬歸。 歸來池苑皆依舊,   太液芙蓉未央柳; 芙蓉如面柳如眉,   對此如何不淚垂? By the dirt beneath the Mawei slope, unseen, the place where her jade countenance expired to no end. Between lord and vassal in glance exchanged the garments all are soaked; eastward to the city gates they trust the steeds' return. Come back to the pools and parks, all is as before: in Deep Pool, the hibiscus -- the willows of the Endless Court. Hibiscus -- like her face -- and willow -- like her brow; at this how could the tears but flow?