tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post6940967321031142942..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: The PassengerKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-73216864994202722972007-12-22T16:32:00.000+00:002007-12-22T16:32:00.000+00:00One of the pitfalls of an existentialist position ...One of the pitfalls of an existentialist position is as if the protagonist knows everything through his esperiences. one failure of this movie is the African backdrop, desert etc as if to bring home the desolate solitude of a successful man. in other situations, modernity has been over emphasized in capitals of industrialist societies, empty streets have shown fear and despair , yet one asks.....does one want to become modern to experience a spiritual crisis?<BR/>this is where I find the philosophy of the absurd or existentialism a bit pretentious, as if one must move forwards to step back.<BR/>life, without any technical or spiritual advances always asks a person to think and suffer.<BR/>these movies and similar novels or philosophies seem like narratives of those who have to get alienated to suffer afterwards.<BR/>no, even in a desert, in less "modern" societies, amongst colonized and not colonized people, the concerns are always the same.<BR/>Another failure of such movies is the inability to engage in any meaningful discourse about "them", by which i mean the "backward" races for whom this vacuum doesn't apparently exist.<BR/>but it always has, no more, no less than everywhere else.Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-16305574011258436962007-12-22T15:21:00.000+00:002007-12-22T15:21:00.000+00:00When I saw John Malchovich but particularly Nirvan...When I saw John Malchovich but particularly Nirvana, by salvadores, I thought a lot to this Antonioni. So many things his generation of film makers seemed to have understood earlier. But what always saddens me is the inevitable end, the necessity of dying that change seems to imply. Like if the fear of change had/has a real concrete fall out, other than pain. Maybe pain is a form of death, but rebirth is possible, like skins for a snake. this heroic charachter instead always die as a consequence of daring. not an appealing option, why?Martahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12998222104090583294noreply@blogger.com