EXIT review - 6 (final)

fORUM fILEM KUALA LUMPUR
The Film Forum of Kuala Lumpur

PATRICK LIM: EXIT
The Second Camera As Magnifier Of Truth

Interpretation by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai

Patrick knows that EXIT is an attempt to play drama and documentary express two fragments of materials: a) the interrogation and b) the recordings of the interrogation in camera and sound. Drama acts out the indefinite perspective of truth, and the camera records the objectivity of the indefiniteness of the reality and truth. The two materials collected in space and time – the past, the present and the future. The future comes very early after the past and the present tells us the revolving and the rotating nature of truth is always in the mind of man. The interrogator is given an exit and holds responsible for all the deductions of words, and he looses hold of his capability of words with the lady in the room.

Another interrogator enters to play another game of words – a game of time past, present and future. The cycle will go on and definite truth will never be found. Time is also alienated in the mind of man.

Alienation in EXIT is in the oral report of guilt. The lady in the room explores the potentials of language to disseminate terror within her and to claim that she was the victim of repression. She could go on telling the same story because she has that strength to transgress words. She could nourish herself by multiplying words. She is enclosed by the three walls but she could get herself free by verbalizing.