I'm here to try and discern what exactly a film means. From visuals, to dialogue, to motif, to symbolism, to allegories, to general subtext; it's hard to take it all in and really grasp what the over all purpose was. So basically I'm here to maybe shed some light on some truly great films (and maybe some other stuff). Hopefully growing other people's knowledge as well as my own.
I'm not a professor or pioneering story teller or anything like that. I'm just a guy who loves story. Just the sheer process of telling a tale and what responsibility and potential that has is what drove me to reading books, watching reviews and well, analyzing the films I watch.
So, feel free to chime in and let's discuss some truly spectacular works of art.
theres no room for the just,for the civil-minded. its about pax american the culture of greed,evil, stupidity. the tralier culkture, the innsate bigotry of rural america... set in n texas, a red state founded on racism bigotry, of neonazism.. things magnifiedby the symbol of the pyschopath. see the founding of the texas rangers, a groupp made official by the state to kill , a militia in the hands of the rulers to keep the underdogs in their place,, go figure..
I love movies and watched American Beauty when I was 13. From the writing, performances, cinematography, and score it was THE movie that opened my eyes to what filmmaking was. Still is one of my favourite films! A True Masterpiece.
Man I got stoned towards the end of the movie. Kept pausing to get different snacks in between and I just kept thinking of ways the movie could end or what it was about. It was so mind blowing putting the pieces together as I ate.
The first monolith grants the apes logic and reason. The monolith orbiting Jupiter seeks to show the humans what lies beyond logic and reason. (The universe does not exist for a logical reason.)
Fucking its a crazy world when string theory meets chaotic theory meets gods "predestined channel theory" meets time travel meets abortion... blissful happy abortion
While watching it all I could see was someone dealing with schizophrenia. At one point Donny says “maybe I’ll be an author or a painter so that people will know what its like to be me”. I just assumed that was the idea, that the author had issues and wanted people to see through his eyes, see what otherwise only he saw. Us, the audience, are manically putting together pieces that must be connected and vitally important. We think there is an all knowing creator (the author) who put these pieces for us to collect, remember, and puzzle together. “No way this is just a coincidence!” This is how the mind is and it’s in overdrive when a person is schizophrenic. When we try to make sense of all these moving parts we get a glimpse into what it might be like to suffer from schizophrenia.
I repressed my black swan for too long… too too long… I was very very very repressive of my sexuality and genuine self until the last few years when I unentangled my mental mess… Hope many many people around you and your families be cleaned with strong psychological hygiene.
I was never convinced of the drug angle....I think that it was yet another part of his brains making it up to justify his death....a sort of "explanation" for how he died when he died and why.....It's all just memory and conscience as this point in time...
This movie means just as much to me as a 40 year old man, as it did to me as an 18 year old teenager, but in two totally different ways. A phenomenal piece of art which only some people will truly appreciate.
I actually cannot believe that anyone roots for leister at all, we watched this for English class, including the directors cut. Our teacher as well as the director continually tried to convince us that you’re meant to feel bad for leister but also feel bad for rooting for him, I feel none of that. I am 17, the idea that anyone redeemable can come from what is essentially statutory r*pe, and the only reason that this doesn’t occur is that she hadn’t had sex before? It’s madness. There is nothing redeemable about a pedophile and the fact that the director wanted us to be “torn” is disgusting
Coppola gives viewers a travelogue of cultures that did not endure. the ancient Siam, the colonial French and the post-war US. Despite beating the Imperial Japanese in the 1940s, a win that ironically included American alliance with Ho Chi Minh's rebels operating in Indochina. American GIs were shot by US made weapons and bullets we gave to the Vietminh.
Grandma death had to make that choice years before. She chose to live and franks father died on the way to prom. Thats why she wrote the book. She went through everything donnie did but chose to live instead of dying.
