Hello comrades. I like looking at films philosophically and artistically.
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Searching for Sugar Man 2012
Great story of a great musician being noticed in a small country and getting fame all too late.
The music itself is brilliant; even being mildly interested in 60s 70s pop, I was surprised I had never heard of him. The music is the emotional core of the film, really guiding our emotions more so than the story, which itself is very emotional.
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Persona 1966
I understand this is a classic and brilliantly made however I felt absolutely nothing throughout the runtime and it did not speak to Mr on any meaningful level.
It seems a film open to interpretation as it is very vague at points and things selected don't obviously have a meaning. The only meaningful interpretation I could find was one woman seemed to be the persona, as Jung said, or the facade and the other the inner self, that they were in fact the same person.Translated from by
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Arrival 2016
It's undoubtedly an artistic masterpiece, as we expect from Denis Villeneuve yet much of the film's philosophy is quite stupid. It mentions the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that our language changes our thought yet this is untrue as it is our experience that changes our thought and then thought moulds our language, e.g. someone who only speaks English can still understand the word geist, in German, even if it's untranslatable just with more words. Similar the heptoopds non-linearity of sprach is…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
I read the books a few years before the first film came out and I felt similar reading the book as the film.
The film is about technology and false savours.
With technology, it becomes so advanced that they regress, for example use shields and swords for guns would not work with shields. We are starting to see this today with manycouitries considering going back to analogue in order to keep files and not be hacked.
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