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Amadeus 1984
Mozart as Amor Fati
Amadeus is both a fun movie and a tragic movie. But it is not exactly a tragicomedy because it's not comedy so much as exuberance that the story contrasts against tragedy. And by doing so, it aims at something both more ambitious and delicate than simply rendering ambivalent truths through drama. It attempts, as Nietzsche did, to imagine a commitment to vivacity in profound spite of mortality. But unlike Nietzsche's Zarathustra who delivers that sensibility through…
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Until the End of the World 1991
Until the End of the World is a Home Coming story
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Nietzche
The essence of a homecoming story is that a character returns to an intimate place with a newfound perspective. In the limit, the emotional impact of a homecoming stems from the fact that this character has adopted such a starkly different perspective that to juxtapose the two over a single shared context evokes an overwhelming…
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Woman in the Dunes 1964
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It’s useful here to add some historical context around the creation of this story. Kobo Abe was born just after the first world war 1924. The early part of his writing career coincided with what was probably the most dramatic social and political transformations in Japan’s history.
During the first quarter of Abe’s writing career, Japan: entered WII (against the Allies, which it fought alongside in WWI), was bombed in the only two nuclear strikes to have ever happened…
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
There are a few things that I love about this film.
It is not just funny, but playful, meaning that it’s a little more interactive and self-directed. The humor doesn’t arise so much from intrinsically funny events, so much as it arises from the particular ways in which a viewer chooses to entertain a scene or piece of dialog. This is especially noticeable when reading the play, where I’d often find myself laughing at the same line for two or…
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