An unprecedented philosophical film classic

Hassie 2022-03-21 09:02:17

What kind of movie and what kind of book I have watched 8 times, of course, it is very deep and it is worth paying so much precious time. Zhou Guoping said that
a superficial book can often be found by just turning a few pages. It's shallow.

A profound book can only be understood after reading it carefully.
I agree that
a mediocre film can often be judged as mediocre in just a few seconds of footage.

A great movie, but most of it can only be convinced of his greatness after watching it carefully.

Every time I watch this movie, I have the thoughts and experiences of my heart. This movie has become one of the few key collection objects in the hard drive. I didn’t watch this movie as a complete one. I knew from the beginning that the director wanted to borrow this kind of psychedelic The
story is just a thread that connects the broken plots with a humorous method. The seemingly short content dialogue actually reflects the director's ideological realm. There is nothing that appears in it. It's not about life and life. When it first appeared in a movie to express a boring philosophy, words that were difficult to express were visually expressed and blended in people's semi-real state. You will be in a trance and can't tell your own state. Can you tell what is reality?


As a small film director, he doesn't expect more people to understand and he doesn't want to show a story, but is expressing his kind of view of the world. Opinion is a study of philosophy of life. People who are not interested in literary philosophy basically have a hard time understanding the views expressed by the director. Not many people are willing to sit down and watch movies without stories and plots. I am thinking that this is a strong cultural difference. Chinese movies include Chinese films are very different from each other. Chinese films express more about social phenomena at the bottom of the society or high-level cultural and social phenomena, or political and historical memories of a certain period of time. They all talk about the status and color of a group life, while Western films are independent thinking. And a kind of conscious inspection within the individual can often see large paragraphs of psychoanalytic monologues
It is very self-centered, a middle school with a philosophy of life attitude, which is rarely seen in oriental films. It uses scenery, scenery, color, character modeling to map and allude to a philosophical point of view. This vague oriental philosophy is as introverted, weird and western as the character of the oriental people. Philosophy is more like analysis and reasoning at the level of life. Strong logical thinking guides the independent consciousness of society and individuals to examine
how purely abstract things in the world are shown in the film. This film makes
life seem like it can never be. It's just that we saw too much of the story and expected too much,
so we chose the movie

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Waking Life quotes

  • Man on TV: A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage from which to view this experience. And where most consider their individual relationship to the universe, I contemplate relationships of my various selves to one another.

  • Kim Krizan: Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration and this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like you know, "water." We came up with a sound for that. Or saber tooth tiger right behind you. We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is like... frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.