Being There Comments

  • Paxton 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    8.5/10. An old gardener who only watched TV for a long time and did not communicate with the outside world and made his thinking TV, made all kinds of irony and laughter after he had to enter the real world due to a change. Satire TV, capitalists, politicians and even American society. There are many jokes in the film (such as various cross-server chats), but some are too absurd, and the overall level is...

  • Sanford 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Peter Sellers' back-to-basics performance is good, but the story becomes more and more boring in the second half of the...

  • Dewitt 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    It's a three-and-a-half-star movie. I didn't want to watch it halfway through. The pacing of the previous episode was too slow. The ending wasn't particularly good either. The ending scene is kind of...

  • Freddy 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    A wonderful film, a political satire, at the same time surprisingly calm, about a certain connection between fate and state of...

  • Madonna 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    After so many interesting episodes before, seeing Peter Sellers walking on the water at the end, everything is...

  • Horace 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Life is a state of mind. The ending is so beautiful. I was going to give it four stars, but later I found out that the male protagonist turned out to be the one who played the triangular role in "Dr. Strangelove", Peter Sellers. Ah ah ah decisive five stars ah. He always surprises...

  • Hilbert 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    The father of Forrest Gump. Brilliant sarcastic stream online...

  • Kennith 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Big wise or wise, Peter Sellers bid farewell to the world with this film, and the scene at the end of the film also turned into an...

  • Roslyn 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    I like to watch movies about the elderly, not the old man with obscure and narrow words like Bergman, but this kind of person with a simple philosophy of...

  • Roderick 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    This film is very strangely shot. It can be described as God in a political satire telling you the "Tao". Although the Tao is very Tao, it still has to be spoken. It can't just stay in the water and laugh. Western natural philosophy is a kind of sensory thinking, Descartes's cogito think therefore I am, this thinking is a kind of scientific analysis of the external world, it is memory, experience, objective, but does not return to the heart. It is different from the "thinking" that is...

Extended Reading
  • Bell 2021-12-31 08:02:04

    The original prototype

    The simplest is often the wisest.

    In the eyes of a simple person, everything is simple. Even if the way to get the source of information is television.


    The ending of this movie is the best I have ever seen.

    Thinking of the legend of Jesus walking on the water, thinking that Mr. Gardener might fall...

  • Aletha 2022-03-24 09:02:13

    This is a comedy~

    It's a comedy - but it's not the kind that floods the afterlife.
    This movie is a different kind of story than Gogol's envoy.
    I in Gogol would call it an allegory, and this film I would prefer to call it a miracle.
    The film uses a lot of references and metaphors. Of course, I'm not just talking...

Being There quotes

  • President "Bobby": Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?

    [Long pause]

    Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

    President "Bobby": In the garden.

    Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.

    President "Bobby": Spring and summer.

    Chance the Gardener: Yes.

    President "Bobby": Then fall and winter.

    Chance the Gardener: Yes.

    Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy.

    Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring!

    Benjamin Rand: Hmm!

    Chance the Gardener: Hmm!

    President "Bobby": Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time.

    [Benjamin Rand applauds]

    President "Bobby": I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.

  • Ron Steigler: Mr. Gardner, uh, my editors and I have been wondering if you would consider writing a book for us, something about your um, political philosophy, what do you say?

    Chance the Gardener: I can't write.

    Ron Steigler: Heh, heh, of course not, who can nowadays? Listen, I have trouble writing a postcard to my children. Look uhh, we can give you a six figure advance, I'll provide you with the very best ghost-writer, proof-readers...

    Chance the Gardener: I can't read.

    Ron Steigler: Of course you can't! No one has the time! We, we glance at things, we watch television...

    Chance the Gardener: I like to watch TV.

    Ron Steigler: Oh, oh, oh sure you do. No one reads!

Being There

Director: Hal Ashby

Language: English,Russian,Italian Release date: February 8, 1980