I was quite disturbed by some of the comments of your contributors getting such a negative perception of this movie.
Certainly it is not something for easy movie watchers,who prefer soaps or comedies with a predictable plot.
This is a movie with no plot,an animation which sometimes might be exhausting for your eyes,but filled with so much thoughts,that one single philosophy book might be unable to contain.And if you watch more carefully the dream like animation,you'll see that animation is well expressing the thoughts and moods of the numerous characters,contribu- ting to the unique message ,interactivity between dream and reality.
You should better watch this movie with the pencil in your hand,noting so many memorable quotes,which your quotes column only scarcely represent.But you can find on the internet pages giving many commented quotes from this unique movie.I highly recommend to take your time to interpret from your point of view the valuable thoughts expressed by the characters and this will help to better understanding of the message.
I refer just to opinions expressed by the professor on existentialism:It stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's actions.We are all made up of individual choices and decisions that we make throughout our lives.If we wisely choose the right decisions,then we can have almost total control of where our life will take us.
Going concrete on above thoughts I pondered about the attitude of many people both in my country as well as in other democracies not to go voting when elections are held,this as they say,in the name of freedom of choice and of breaking social slavery.Certainly we may respect their choice.But strangely the same mass protesting by their absence at elections,always are the most fierce critics of the election results and of the further developments in their society.A minority votes,perhaps it is misinformed or uninformed,at the end the results reflect only their attitudes,So many more social problems are created.If you can put the blame on someone else for the consequences of your non-acting,you will face the consequences and have no possibility of correcting by your vote even the most irresponsible political behaviour embraced by a minority.
I just tried to show by the above,how some phrases from this astonishing movie can lead those willing to ponder about,to interpreting various important issues of our post - modernist democracies.If you are willing to make this effort,the movie will offer you a wide variety of valuable thoughts to be interpreted,what no single philosopy-or sociology book can give you.Highly recommend Linklater's unusual animation,which I consider a great movie to watch again and again.
Certainly it is not something for easy movie watchers,who prefer soaps or comedies with a predictable plot.
This is a movie with no plot,an animation which sometimes might be exhausting for your eyes,but filled with so much thoughts,that one single philosophy book might be unable to contain.And if you watch more carefully the dream like animation,you'll see that animation is well expressing the thoughts and moods of the numerous characters,contribu- ting to the unique message ,interactivity between dream and reality.
You should better watch this movie with the pencil in your hand,noting so many memorable quotes,which your quotes column only scarcely represent.But you can find on the internet pages giving many commented quotes from this unique movie.I highly recommend to take your time to interpret from your point of view the valuable thoughts expressed by the characters and this will help to better understanding of the message.
I refer just to opinions expressed by the professor on existentialism:It stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's actions.We are all made up of individual choices and decisions that we make throughout our lives.If we wisely choose the right decisions,then we can have almost total control of where our life will take us.
Going concrete on above thoughts I pondered about the attitude of many people both in my country as well as in other democracies not to go voting when elections are held,this as they say,in the name of freedom of choice and of breaking social slavery.Certainly we may respect their choice.But strangely the same mass protesting by their absence at elections,always are the most fierce critics of the election results and of the further developments in their society.A minority votes,perhaps it is misinformed or uninformed,at the end the results reflect only their attitudes,So many more social problems are created.If you can put the blame on someone else for the consequences of your non-acting,you will face the consequences and have no possibility of correcting by your vote even the most irresponsible political behaviour embraced by a minority.
I just tried to show by the above,how some phrases from this astonishing movie can lead those willing to ponder about,to interpreting various important issues of our post - modernist democracies.If you are willing to make this effort,the movie will offer you a wide variety of valuable thoughts to be interpreted,what no single philosopy-or sociology book can give you.Highly recommend Linklater's unusual animation,which I consider a great movie to watch again and again.
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