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Adeline 2022-03-25 09:01:11

I like movies that talk about life in such a chatty way. Sure enough, the same director and the male and female starring have the same style. However, this one covers a wider range, not only philosophy, but also the semiotics of science, physics and biology, which is more difficult to understand, but even if you understand it, you don't understand it. Therefore, most people feel that after watching it, "I understand a lot of things, but I still can't live my life."
Although I also feel this way, I don't think this movie is telling us any truth. This society's display of all the troubles and confusions in this world is a narrative, a feeling of "I don't know".
It seems that everyone can explore and evaluate life, talk about life, talk about life, talk about philosophy, talk about various abstract concepts, anytime, anywhere, with the unfamiliar or familiar, do whatever you want, in fact, everyone is also looking for someone who can talk Anyone who can talk to them can be the target of confidence, but in reality, most of us lack the courage to communicate and express our inner feelings recklessly. In the movie, however, it can be said without any disguise or reservation, whether the other party can understand it or not, and it is not to get a response or to ask a question for an answer, just these are confusion.
The lines are really good. I like to record them blindly, but I can't find all the complete lines. What I recorded myself is also more touching and simple and easy to think about. Even if we don’t understand it, even after recording it and thinking about it, we are still confused, and even more and more confused. Maybe we understand it is just what we think we understand, or maybe we really don’t understand, and suddenly understand at some point in the future. And then getting confused again, or suddenly being smart about other things, is this a sign of our growth and maturity?


Part of the line:
"Dream is destiny."
"The more you talk about a person as a social fabricator or a confluence of forces, piecemeal or out of society, the more excuses you make."
"You To be different, first of all, be different from the material aspect, be different from others, set an example for them, we can’t easily lose ourselves and see ourselves as victims of many forces, we must position ourselves.”
"Creation arises out of flaws, out of struggles and setbacks, and that's where I think language comes from, I mean, it's born out of a desire to transcend self-isolation, and there's also some kind of relationship to each other, when it's just simply surviving, It just has to be simple. When it gets really interesting, I think it's time for us to communicate with the same system of symbols, all the abstract and intangible things we experience."
"Words are lazy, they're just These symbols, they're dead, you know? A lot of feelings are invisible. A lot of things we can only feel and can't tell. Then, when we communicate with each other, we feel connected to each other, we think each other is the same Being able to understand each other, we think we almost have a sense of spiritual communion that is fleeting but inseparable."
"The new evolutionary model will give us the human characteristics of authenticity, loyalty, justice, and freedom, which are will be a manifestation of a new evolution, so that's what we want to see, and that's going to be good."
"Our freedom is just a possibility, just a sudden change in a state of disorder, which seems to be worse. , I'd rather be a cog in a stable material machine than some sudden change, so we can't ignore this problem, we can only use our contemporary worldview to give people some space, with all the necessary, Not to the body, but to people, that means solving problems, finding space for choices and responsibilities, trying to understand independently."
"Art is not an end, but an inducement and a method that locates our particular melody and wears us out. time, the discovery of real communication is in it, at least in the search for this communication, the adventure of discovery or loss, the unfulfilled and unacknowledged we continue to seek, use our own desires, fears and fantasies to eliminate loneliness. Driven by the fact that no matter how empty the world seems, no matter how degraded and depleted it may seem to us, we understand that anything is possible, and that under the right circumstances, the new world is likely to be the same as the old the same."
"There are two kinds of tormented people in the world, those who lack life and those who live too much. The latter are not much different from animals."
"What prevents people from reaching their true potential, the answer Among other questions, what is the most common human trait, fear or laziness?"
"You have to understand what you dreamed about in the first place, you can start to recognize it, you can start to ask yourself, hey, is this a dream."
"Film is by its very nature, a representation of reality, just like Reality really regenerates. What the movie actually does is, like the incarnation and creation of God. The movie is like a record of God or the face of God or the face of God that is constantly changing. The whole Hollywood filmmaking tries to do that The media of the story, the film should not be based on the script, but should be based on people and things, from that level, they almost formed that kind of star system, because the film is about people and not about the story. Truffaut often said that the most A good movie doesn't necessarily have the best script, and the best script doesn't make the best movie. Because they have a narrative, you will be subject to it, and the best movie will not be subject to the script. Movies always have a narrative because it has a time limit, just like there is a narrative in music, you don't think about a song's story first and then write the song, it's born in those moments, that's what the movie has, that sacred Moment, this sacred moment is not sacred around us. Movies will show us this moment, we can frame it to appreciate it, holy, moment after moment."
"A thousand years is only one moment, Nothing new, different, just repeating, same cloud, same music, same feeling for an hour or an afterlife."
"You've started to find the answer, and though it's a little difficult, the reward is rich, Practice your mind as thoroughly as you can, know it's just practice, create beautiful things, solve problems, explore the mysteries of the material world, feel all the joys and sorrows, carry your travel bag full of emotional memories, I remember where I came from Come, how to become human, why I stay nearby, my final departure is just around the corner, leaving at the speed of escape, not only in the afterlife, but in eternity."
"Life is a miracle that accumulates over time, is The accumulation of those startling moments that exist between each other. The world is a test of whether you can go beyond your immediate experience, a test of our ability to go beyond what you see, a real test of our curiosity, Doubt examines our dynamism. Thomas Mann writes that he is immersed in life, not writing a hundred stories."
"An assumption is that you cannot understand life while living. And I would say that to understand life is to live."
"Remembering is far more of a spiritual act than forgetting. Rocca writes in the same poem Dao, the rat lizard will bite those who don't dream. When he realizes that he is another person's dream figure, that is self-knowledge."
"You never meet yourself, but the advantage of meeting others at the same time is among them. One will reveal you to yourself. Examine the nature of everything you observe."
"In fact, everyone's life has a kind of narrative, and behind the different phenomena, there is only one story, and that is the story from negation to affirmation, the story of life. It's all: No thanks, no thanks. And then the end result will be the same: yes, I surrender, yes, I admit, yes, I believe."

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Waking Life quotes

  • Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer?

    Wiley: Yeah.

    Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting

  • Boat Car Guy: The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.