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Mike Pinder RIP
RIP an Anerican patriot
RIP
Kerouac the creative flame
A forgotten favorite
Why kill Data?
Why no posts for this prolific creator?
Returning to Forever
"Who am I?"
A favorite moment
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Disagree. His final film, <i>The Dead</i>, is a quiet, emotionally powerful masterpiece.
The original DID suggest the father having sublimated feelings for his daughter. It's not blatant, but it's definitely there. His Ego is so consumed with his intellectual stature & wisdom that he's much more unaware of his own darker side than most people are of theirs. Quite often it's the man who claims to be working solely on logic, reason, and intellect whose unconscious is seething with primal emotion that he consciously denies could ever possibly be aa part of him.
It's unjustly forgotten. Some fine films are, unfortunately.
Absolutely agree!
You shouldn't approach this as a ghost story. It's not supposed to be scary in the sense you mean. It's an exploration of our attitudes to life & death, and how we view the idea of some sort of afterlife. It's a very human & humane story, one that most people can or should be able to relate to as they live their lives over the years & decades. Have you ever had someone you know & love die? Have you wondered why it happened, if there's some deeper meaning, if they're truly gone or whether they might survive after death in some way, or that we need them to survive after death because of the black hole of pain & loss when they're gone? Have you never even remotely wonder5ed about these things? Most people do wonder about them at some time or another. This is a movie for all those who do wonder ... which is the majority of the human race.
TV scripts were much more open to metaphoric, symbolic, philosophical dialogue back then. It didn't necessarily have to sound like everyday speech, and in fact often deliberately went against everyday speech to work on another level than realism. A lot of writers admired & were inspired by the Beats, for example, as well as Theater of the Absurd. Such things are generally out of fashion now, when audiences have been raised to want & need direct, logical dialogue & narrative, with every tiny piece fitting neatly & snugly into place. Which certainly has its place, but not in everything. <i>Route 66</i> works all the better precisely because of its willingness to trust the viewers to feel the poetic dialogue & engage with it rather than be spoon-fed pre-digested literalism.
Exactly.
Agreed!
That's OK. We all mix up things sometimes, especially after having seen so many TV series & so many movies. :)
I like this response very much indeed!
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