I watched this last year and I was like WOW this film I need the screenplay printed into a book that I can carry around with me. And then I read some Rilke and I was like … oh :) Anyway point being I want to quote the entire thing.
Philosophical without being inaccessible— my favorite balance of existential and playful. Perspective! Makes me say wowwwww about being alive.
"… with his flight began another story — the story of…
A little all over the place but kinda fun and among the many themes that may or may not have been delivered on I think the idea that you will never be the exact same version of yourself twice and can learn from other versions of yourself was nice. I was just the other day thinking about that Joan Didion quote where she’s all: "...I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to…
Have not seen a Wiseman before this but it seemed to me that mundanity is not a concept that exists for him, which I love. To exist is to be worth watching— worthwhile. It’s all interesting.
Felt like a nature documentary for humanity, the disparity between economic classes rendering them separate species, the more privileged of which often making fools of themselves.
Beautiful shots; sometimes spent so much time with a subject/scene that it became meditative.
And all of it…
