I loved the first part of Part 2: Elegy for Left Hand Alone. I thought it was both funny and poignant.

"You know how children with cameras learn to work the exposed moments that define the family cluster. They break every trust...It is not a joke. They will shoot you sitting on teh pot if they can manage a suitable vantage." (155-156)

I think DeLillo's description of film contrasts well with the movies in Gravity's Rainbow. In Underworld, DeLillo writes about the "home video," that possesses a "crude power." It captures candid scenes with brutal honesty. There is no airbrushing and fantasy is not the aim. It seems more real, even "superreal," more true to life than anything else. The author seems to play with the concept of something that is predestined, "The world is lurking in the camera, already framed." Film is only the material manifestation, or the proof, that these moments exist. In GR, as we've discussed in class, movies and films do not portray reality, but do seem to CREATE it.