Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy

Beulah 2022-03-28 09:01:14

To be able to show a film that is nearly two hours long without taking a nap or being upset, can be called a person with excellent concentration. Knowing that Jim Jarmusch is the master of American independent film, but What about the masters, we can still say that we don't like the films that are so boring and unintelligible, and let those who so-called see the feeling pursue them, and we continue to watch those so-called vulgar films by them. . . .
Suddenly I thought of a small story from a Buddhist scripture. Someone asked an eminent monk who had attained the Tao what the highest state was. The eminent monk said: "Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, that is the highest state." . .

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The Limits of Control quotes

  • [last lines]

    American: What is your fucking agenda here?

    [pause]

    American: You people don't understand a fucking thing about how the world really works.

    Lone Man: I understand. But I understand subjectively.

    American: That's fucking nonsense. Your sick minds have been polluted with crap. Your music, movies, science. Fucking bohemians on hallucinogenic drugs. All that shit has poisoned you. And it has nothing to do with the real world. And I suppose you believe that by eliminating me, you will eliminate control over some fucking artificial reality.

    Lone Man: Reality is arbitrary.

    American: Fuck you.

  • [first lines]

    Creole: [character speaks in Spanish/French creole, English subtitles] You don't speak Spanish, right?

    French: [character translates for Creole] You don't speak Spanish, right?

    Creole: You are ready? Everything's cool?

    French: You are ready? Everything's cool?

    Lone Man: Yes!

    Creole: Good.

    French: Good.