Author: Ivan Dal Cin
"There's an image that popped into my head the first time you described this project. The connection lies in the name: as you know, Pollock became known in the press as 'Jack the Dripper', and from the way you described it to me, I immediately thought of another Jack... Torrance! Jack Torrance is obviously 'the Ripper,' but aside from that, the scene I'm interested in analyzing here is the one with the typewriter. There we have the quintessential 'writer in crisis', obsessively reproducing a single code - his own personal, self-referential cipher. It would be a perfect conceptual and meta-literary operation, if it weren't for the madness. When we finally see that all the typed pages are filled with that repeated refrain in different patterns, I can't help but think of Pollock. Using a simple string of text, a code, he has generated a narrative and hallucinatory chaos that explodes, engulfing the rest of the film."
David Cumpany
