In Reply to: 21 Grams posted by Bulkington on April 19, 2004 at 07:29:02:
abstracts because of how they worked, as well?
A person should judge a work of art by how they react to it...viscerally. If one comes with all these pre-judgments, i.e. no narration, no time-looping, well...why stop there? Let's eliminate all artistic variations and be left with ONE way to interpret "reality."
Personally, I found it fascinating. You get up, have coffee, kiss the wife, hug your child...with no thought that a catastrophic event may be just around the corner. Present and past are trumped by the future. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
I drive more carefully, myself, since that movie...
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- You probably dislike Pollock or other - tinear 10:07:41 04/19/04 (16)
- Re: You probably dislike Pollock or other - Bulkington 10:35:41 04/19/04 (15)
- Three excellent films with narration pop right into my head. - dennzio 11:07:22 04/19/04 (14)
- Re: 3 More excellent films w/ narration - geoffkait 02:17:29 04/20/04 (1)
- Re: 3 More excellent films w/ narration - Gee LP 11:55:01 04/21/04 (0)
- Re: Three excellent films with narration pop right into my head. - rico 11:32:58 04/19/04 (6)
- Thank God Kubrick didn't employ a narrative with 2001. Perhaps if Hal had narrated..........nt - dennzio 16:29:27 04/19/04 (5)
- "We had been floating in space for some time, when one day I suddenly became sentient..."(nt) - rhizomatic 08:55:34 04/20/04 (2)
- Re: "We had been floating in space for some time, when one day I suddenly became sentient..."(nt) - clbeanz 12:35:35 04/20/04 (1)
- There you go man.... - dennzio 15:34:41 04/20/04 (0)
- Re: Thank God Kubrick didn't employ a narrative with 2001. Perhaps if Hal had narrated..........nt - rico 07:49:36 04/20/04 (1)
- Thank God nt - Bulkington 08:59:32 04/20/04 (0)
- American Beauty - Bulkington 11:27:28 04/19/04 (4)
- Disagreement about the narration in AB. - tinear 18:23:05 04/19/04 (1)
- Perhaps - Bulkington 06:40:28 04/20/04 (0)
- Re: American Beauty - dennzio 16:24:29 04/19/04 (1)
- Re: Apocalypse Now - rico 07:54:08 04/20/04 (0)