Glad you dug it too..it's a thinkers film. I am sure religious people see it's "meaning" differently than I do, some might think of reincarnation or other such things. I did not take it as such..
The one thing I loved was some of it (the intertwining) was obvious... some was so well done that it doesn't hit you until later (Jim Broadbent shouting about 'Soylent Green' as he ran..etc)
I would recommend it, Xim actually reminded me it was one I need to see, and I would like to see it again in my life time..even in the next few years!
I did too especially how what we think of as the earliest timeframe is actually the last... there was sadness...half of our tales meet heartbreaking ends... but half triumphs and that is how life is... going in knowing some thing will prosper, some will fail gave what could have been a sugary movie sincerity and heart. As soon as I started crying that set A of lovers failed, set B worked and that evened it out...like for every action....
I can even watch the sadder parts knowing it is all connected and we need A to get to B to get to C to get to Z and so on.
I can only cringe at what religious people see in it (hopefully having a loving homosexual couple in it, just as important in the story as the rest will keep them at bay), but I am sure religious folks have many stupid interpretations if it.
I will take a more child-like approach for in it's simplicity lies the profound truth "From ashes to ashes, From dust to dust (we are all made up of starry stuff...") Thank you, Mr. Sagan, :)
Seriously, this was another Oscar Snub, most critics called it the biggest of the year and saying it just proves the "average viewer" isn't really about an ave 100 I.Q. They were confused and DUMBfounded.
Many reviewers and critics were agog at the snub and I am too..it was just too smart for the 23 year old in Alabama, the teenager in South Dakota, the 60 year old in Oregon, and the sad thing is..it's SO universal. THAT'S the point....so missed by your "average film goer".
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The one thing I loved was some of it (the intertwining) was obvious... some was so well done that it doesn't hit you until later (Jim Broadbent shouting about 'Soylent Green' as he ran..etc)
I would recommend it, Xim actually reminded me it was one I need to see, and I would like to see it again in my life time..even in the next few years!
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I can even watch the sadder parts knowing it is all connected and we need A to get to B to get to C to get to Z and so on.
I can only cringe at what religious people see in it (hopefully having a loving homosexual couple in it, just as important in the story as the rest will keep them at bay), but I am sure religious folks have many stupid interpretations if it.
I will take a more child-like approach for in it's simplicity lies the profound truth "From ashes to ashes, From dust to dust (we are all made up of starry stuff...") Thank you, Mr. Sagan, :)
True True =)
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Zuz
Seriously, this was another Oscar Snub, most critics called it the biggest of the year and saying it just proves the "average viewer" isn't really about an ave 100 I.Q. They were confused and DUMBfounded.
Many reviewers and critics were agog at the snub and I am too..it was just too smart for the 23 year old in Alabama, the teenager in South Dakota, the 60 year old in Oregon, and the sad thing is..it's SO universal. THAT'S the point....so missed by your "average film goer".
Sad yet unabashedly true true.
Z.
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