Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: I want to be clear...

Posted by sjb on December 2, 2008 at 08:35:11:
"Given the degree of self-awareness and intelligence that prevails in Kaufmann's work I would seriously doubt that "We're all going to die--- yet, we still have to go on living" would have been written without irony. That is, he probably intended it as a line people would recognize as a cliche and intended an additional dimension of meaning. For example, he could have intended it as a comment on the superficiality of the character who said it."
There's no doubt the main character was full of self-loathing/self-absorption and that the film indulges that self loathing/absorption but it makes fun of it at the same time and is sensitive to the fact that while exaggerating that state it's touching on universal truths about being human and alive and is essentially a journey from self absorption to a kind of enlightenment.
I think out of the three films you mentioned it's most like Eternal Sunshine in that it's weird - in an almost science fiction kind of way - all the way through (as opposed to Malkovich and Adaptation where it veers off in the end to place that might take you out of the movie a bit) and it's easy to accept the strangeness as symbolism and the layers of complexity (which aren't all that complex) as the unwinding of a damaged mind (the character's, not CF's).
I think it was brilliant but not without flaws and I could see where someone could get turned off by the level of self loathing (it can uncomfortable) and not ever really get into the movie.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson