See this movie
There's a film showing at the Bell tonight and tomorrow at 7:15 and 9:15 that is worth the time, effort, and even missed-Fringe performance, to go see.
It's called ''The 3 Rooms of Melancholia,'' and it's one of the most worthwhile films I've seen in my life so far. Pirjo Honkasalo helps us to imagine, mostly without the noise of language, what it might be like to be a person whose world is largely defined and limited by the processes of warring and hating. She does it in a way that respects both the dignity of the persons shown and the intelligence of the audience.
The persons and situations that appear on the screen suggest the superficiality of rooted ethnic and religious differences in a way that is rare and necessary. The film allows us to intimately view the everydayness of how fear and hatred happen, and how they are related to love and grief. With these origins in mind, it becomes difficult to say precisely who "they" are and to unambiguously label anyone as essentially "evil".
The images subtly place this misery in a context in which the competition for scarce material resources fuels violence. We see the specific particulars of what conditions might allow warring to happen. Most importantly, this film nurtures the empathetic imagination and so fulfills one of the best purposes of human-made things.
Go if you can.
It's called ''The 3 Rooms of Melancholia,'' and it's one of the most worthwhile films I've seen in my life so far. Pirjo Honkasalo helps us to imagine, mostly without the noise of language, what it might be like to be a person whose world is largely defined and limited by the processes of warring and hating. She does it in a way that respects both the dignity of the persons shown and the intelligence of the audience.
The persons and situations that appear on the screen suggest the superficiality of rooted ethnic and religious differences in a way that is rare and necessary. The film allows us to intimately view the everydayness of how fear and hatred happen, and how they are related to love and grief. With these origins in mind, it becomes difficult to say precisely who "they" are and to unambiguously label anyone as essentially "evil".
The images subtly place this misery in a context in which the competition for scarce material resources fuels violence. We see the specific particulars of what conditions might allow warring to happen. Most importantly, this film nurtures the empathetic imagination and so fulfills one of the best purposes of human-made things.
Go if you can.