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This piece of

posted 10 years ago by fanslayer
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.. art made me fall in love with it right after I watched it. It might sound sentimental but this film made me feel like I found a missing piece in my heart; it almost felt like I now know exactly what was/is missing in my life. For the past several days, the only thing I could think about is Adele's life, her relationship and emotions. Three movies made me feel this way in my life: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was 15, Barry Lyndon last summer, and now Blue is the Warmest Color. It might be a weak analogy, but my feelings after this film were similar to what you might call "love with first sight." It was the movie I felt in love with.

So, I just wanted to share my feelings and ask you what are your films that you felt in love with? Not your "best" or top-10 but the ones that made you feel complete on emotional level?

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[–] AnubisWaits 9 years ago

This is such a stupid culture. Never in history except 20th/21st century West has there been a people engaged in such idiotic status signalling. Beer cans fashioned into a cock and balls shape sells for thousands of dollars. Ceal Floyer's store receipt and filled trash bag is "art." Now we have boring ass snob magnet films like Blue is the Warmest Color, Stalker, and El Topo held up as great art. El Topo even has symbolism! Like a painting or a novel!

Nuke this *beep* planet.

[–] AnubisWaits 9 years ago

The emperor has NO clothes!

[–] fanslayer 9 years ago

I don't know dude, I hope you are joking. I can understand if you dislike "Blue" but calling "Stalker" boring and not regarding it as true masterpiece, you must be out of your mind.

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[–] AnubisWaits 9 years ago

It decidedly is not. A few good shots does not make a masterpiece of a film. A film is not a novel, and it surely is not a poem or any other pompous label and sentiment they want to attribute to such films like Stalker. A film should be entertaining and visceral. It is not a medium conducive to pretentious "great art."

Snobs only pretend to enjoy that boring trash. Cinephiles are just like wine aficionados; they bleat nonsense. Or the BS con artists that rave about how a million dollar Stradivarius instrument is so much better than any modern equivalents even though they can't tell them apart in double blind tests yet still stick to their guns and churn out their pish posh about how Stradivarius are made of (putatively) extinct wood and the trees were thicker in the little ice age and yadda yadda. Such people are not honest and need to feel special, a nasty mix.

"Oooh, ahhhh. They're laying in a damp field and babbling about PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS. Do you see how the director lingers on this shot for 15 minutes? Masterpiece."

[–] fanslayer 9 years ago

I respect your opinion but I must disagree with you as I can watch Stalker non-stop. In fact, I love all of Tarkovsky's films. Maybe because I am Russian and can "relate" better than non-Russians. I certainly would not call Stalker a "boring trash." Some of Bergman's films are definitely boring for me but again, I think Swedish people can probably understand his films better than me. To me, there are only a few directors better than Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick is one of them.

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[–] robotattack 8 years ago

This is unbelievably idiotic.

[–] black-hood 9 years ago

I agree with your comments about "art". I recall the guy that piled some bricks at an exhibition and it being praised as great art. Load of nonsense of course and all these so called experts ooohing and aaaahing about the hidden or inner beauty are fooling no one but themselves and those with too much money that pay for this garbage.

Not sure when it was but at least 15 years ago, I recall they gave a chimp some paper, paint brushes and paint and let him go to town on it. The result was then shown to some art critics that praised the bold use of colour and the delicate brush strokes. They then showed it to the art critic Brian Sewell, a pretty outspoken guy on modern art that was never afraid to call bu**s*** when he saw it. He laughed at the painting and said it looked like it was done by monkeys. He was never afraid to speak his mind, lol.

Just tried googling the above and see the same thing was done in the 60s and caught out a bunch of critics then too.

[–] AnubisWaits 8 years ago

Bump to thank you for the story about the chimpanzee artist. I looked it up and had a laugh but didn't go back to reply to you.

[–] asmomo 9 years ago

Lost In Translation

[–] Joeyjag_97 9 years ago

Melancholia did that for me. You should check it out.

“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”

[–] fanslayer 9 years ago

Oh yes, I've seen it. Great movie! I liked Trier's Dogville more though

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[–] Joeyjag_97 9 years ago

Yeah Dogville is his masterpiece.

“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”