paradox

Alexzander 2022-12-07 16:44:06

Woody Allen's new work in 2015, the filter is great, uses a lot of Bach. The male protagonist's logic reminds me of Death Note. I don't think this kind of midlife crisis is common. He is trying to increase his own layer to achieve a certain kind of existence. He dared to realize rather than just think about it, and for his long enough dramatic life, this thought was a breakthrough, opening up a kind of predicament he had never had before, and he experimented with himself! Gets paranoid, and the ending is pretty darkly humorous. This show made me like Stone a little more.

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Irrational Man quotes

  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.