I don't want life to imitate art, I want life to be art.
Damn, another chick flick. And she didn't originate that; it was a turn of the 20th century chap who coincidentally has the same name (at least, sounds the same).
Before long we'll be working on "The Unbearable Likeness of Being" (there in the movie theater) and "Like Water for Chocolate".
Let's have some more Bruce Willis... something intellectual!
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
MajGenl.Meade wrote:"The Unbearable Likeness of Being"
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an excellent novel and beautiful film which is only a chick flick to the extent that it depicts a hot Daniel Day-Lewis in erotic sex scenes . . . but it also depicts a hot Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin, thus is just as appealing to men, I should think.
Beyond that, the film (and source novel) is about so much more than sex - it's actually pretty deep, and not the sort of fluff that generally qualifies as chick flick. It's certainly no 'rom-com'.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
Scooter wrote:I think he was guessing at my quote, but it is incorrect for that as well.
No, not a guess. She stole the quote from Ernst (or she used it, to be fair. It's the interwebs that think she originated it)
BSG: my wife and I went to yer ackchul cinema to see the "Unbearable" movie - her sister recommended it. Should have known better; bloody liberal Democrat!
We left after about 15 minutes, bored to tears. Bloody philistines, us! But at least we didn't demand our money back; you pays your money and you takes your chances.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
MajGenl.Meade wrote:We left after about 15 minutes, bored to tears. Bloody philistines, us! But at least we didn't demand our money back; you pays your money and you takes your chances.
I will try not to hold this against you; art films are an acquired taste.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
I remember going to see The Unbearable Lightness of Being and getting to a point where it FINALLY seemed to be drawing to a conclusion, only to have it go on for another hour or so. "Unbearable" definitely described it for me. If they were trying to use the tedium of sitting through the movie as a metaphor for life in Communist Czechoslovakia, they succeeded.
And I loved Daniel Day Lewis in almost everything else I saw him in, before and after.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
I liked Unbearable Lightness ..., but detested the movie Scooter's quote came from (even if it was based on someone saying it earlier). As always, I will defer answering for a while.
RayThom wrote:I'm so distracted by your disgusting avatar that I can think straight.
It comes close to making me think straight, but not quite.
Damned dyslexia. Even when I read stuff back before hitting 'Submit' it still looks good to me. I also have auditory processing disorder, and I'm left handed.
It's so hard.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Some people who seem to know it are holding off, so we'll see if another quote helps anyone else:
Your mother did it to you, and her mother did it to her, and back and back and back all the way to Eve. At some point you stop it and you say fuck it, I start with me
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
No. But this film is also about someone who has had what most people would see as a privileged life, but it had a darker side that she still struggles to overcome, as she tries to rebuild a life for herself on her own terms, with mixed results.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
