The anti-Entertainment / antidote crux — does a counter-film exist?
texture · 30 April YDAU; standing rumor
- When: the crux surfaces on the 30 April YDAU mountainside and recurs into the ?/20 Nov YDAU Joelle interview
- What: A persistent rumor holds that the auteur also made a counter-film — "this quote 'anti'-Entertainment the film's director supposedly made to counter the lethality" — that could be held out "as some kind of remedy or antidote." Steeply half-suspects it is a bargaining fiction the A.F.R. and F.L.Q. might dangle; Marathe answers that of any such antidote "we have no evidence except craziness of rumors." Joelle, the one performer, deflates it from the other side: JOI "never talked about an anti-version or antidote for God's sake," and "He'd never carry it that far. A joke." Whether an antidote exists is a third open crux of the object, recorded as open. See the U.S.O.U.S. thread; the James O. Incandenza thread.