I saw this with a very intelligent person. I know this because she figured out it was an indescribable bore 20 minutes before I did. I kept going with it and going with it and going with it and going with it and going with it.................. then I snapped out of it. Oh dear, Jim, oh dear.
shareCurrently, I have to agree. Although I did something with this film I rarely do with ANY film - bailed after an hour. I was dejected. I liked the music, the cinematography, but I was just beyond irritated by the aberrant meaninglessness. I felt abandoned by Jarmusch, a director I was lucky enough to discover when Stranger Than Paradise had its first, albeit very brief, theatrical run here in the UK.
However I think I'll try again, maybe this time viewing it with my special lady, a Nietzschean nihilist. She might save what I found first to be an intolerable ideological blur.
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Don't do it Bug. This movie is so repetitious it makes it look like David Mamet never wrote the same thing twice. And remember, hell is repetition.
Ha. I love David Mamet. And you know, part of my sadness in my parting ways with this movie was that I didn't get to see the moments with Gael Bernal (probably my favourite actor) & Bill Murray (-). Hm. I might have to make a challenge of sorts of this. Oh beep it. I'm gonna watch Tetsuo again now.
bugyell
Nietzche was not a nihilist. As a student of existentialism I cringe every time i see that. His point was Platonic and Christian religions are nihilistic because they concern a life after the one on earth.
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Nietzsche, while not organizing nihilist revolts in his every daily breath, did differentiate between active nihilism, and the passive. This does not make him a nihilist, yet does not at the same time make him not one. As for your existentialism, Nietzsche was a proto-existentialist (although that's a claim made only possible with hindsight). Perplex me more, young sparrow, and I shall beat you soundly about the ears and neck with my fiancée).
shareThe way I understand it, nihilism is belief in nothing at all, so how could a nihilist believe in life after death? And what's it got to do with this toxic bore of a film? Wait don't tell me, I'm already half asleep.
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