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Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tarcovsky, Solaris */ J.S.Bach - BWV 639 Choral Prelude in F Minor
Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
"You mean more to me than any scientific truth." *
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tarcovsky, Solaris */ J.S.Bach - BWV 639 Choral Prelude in F Minor
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"
"Blade Runner is adapted from the novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' written by award winning science fiction author, Philip K. Dick. [...] Just as the ghost of Dick's twin sister, Jane, affected his books, so too did the memory of Ridley's brother, Frank, affect his film. Mortality is present in Dick's novel. But under Scott's direction, 'Blade Runner' reshapes Dick's distopia into a story of two men: one who is dying and seeking meaning to his life, and the other, who because of their encounter gains a deeper understanding of who he is. And as the film reaches his climax, completely unlike the novel, one man sits and watches helplessly as a surrogate brother surrenders calmly to his death. While mortality and identity appear to be the film's commanding themes, there re others running through it's futuristic landscape. There are questions about zoology and technology, memory and authenticity. Then there is theology and biology. And biggest of all, humanity and equality. Yet another theme is urbanity and Blade Runner uses it to present a vision of the future. Paradoxically, that future can be found in the past. It's imagery is reminiscent of the 15th century paintings by Jeronymous Bosch. The film presents an appocalyptic view of Los Angeles, and even before we enter the City of Angels, the soundtrack hints that judgement day is at hand. In literary terms Dante Alighieri described hell with meticulous detail in his epic poem 'Inferno'. With those medieval illusions, Roy Batty has come to Earth in pursuit of more life, but all he finds is a world plagued with pollution, decay and a creator unable to help. Not unlike the knight returning from the crusades in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 masterpiece, 'The Seventh Seal'. It is not the only film we find in Blade Runner. You have 'Shanghai Express', 'Citizen Kane', 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Mildred Pierce', and 'Out of the Past'. Then there is 'Blow-Up', 'The Conformist', the films of Stanley Kubrick, especially 'Barry Lyndon', Scorcese's 'Taxi Driver', and Coppola's 'Appocalypse Now', and of course, Blade Runner itself has had an enormous influence on other films. You can take your pick from 'Akira', 'Ghost in the Shell', 'Brazil', the films of David Fincher particularly, 'Se7en', 'Dark City', 'The Matrix', another Dick adaptation: 'Minority Report', 'Batman Begins', and 'Wall-E'. This unusual use of focus is not mere affectation. It is a poetic flourish that encapsulates Roy's predicament: he has but a short length of life to live, and Ridley Scott visualizes that time by narrowing the space in which Roy appears in focus. Modern architecture is perhaps best exemplified by the skyscraper, and 'Blade Runner' uses enormous high rises to illustrate another of it's themes: social structure. Now, I don't say social order. This city teams with chaos. But undoubtedly, Blade Runner's society is avertical one of haves and have nots. These visions can be traced back to the silent era. Specifically 'The Crowd' directed in 1920 by King Vidor, and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis', a year earlier. Langs masterpiece resembles these drawings by the Italian futurist Antonio Sant'Elia. While Sant'Elia's designs inform Blade Runner's vision of the city, it is the designs of an American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright and one of his buildings in particular that succinctly answers the key question of identity: who or what is Rick Deckard? There are several clues as to Deckard's real identity. The most emphatic of which emerge in Ridley Scott's final director's cut of 2006. But long before that and present in the film from as early as its pre-poduction stage is an architectural clue. These scenes set in Deckard's apartment are actually filmed in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Ennis House, built in 1924 is one of the landmark buildings in Los Angeles and features concrete blocks with very distinct details. Frank Lloyd Wright insisted upon these carvings after having visited the Mayan temple in Mexico. This is where Doctor Eldon Tyrell lives, and the silhouette of the Mayan temple echos above Deckard's apartment by way of the details on the walls. So the creator lives in the temple while his creation dwells in an apartment adorned with ornate carvings from the temple. Another important element is, of course, eyes. Note the manner in which the eyes of the known replicants are lit (?). The gift of sight brings with it the ability to recognize, and both are crucial steps in forming an identity. To recognize yourself is to see yourself. And that is important in understanding who you are. This is the 'Arnolfini Marriage' painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434. Examine the background and you will see the artist reflected in the mirror. But we don't know who took this photograph, because whoever took it doesn't know who they are. Ridley Scott has given us several great films and at least one masterpiece. But I think that Blade Runner is his most personal film. For me it belongs more to the museum than it does in the multiplex.
Surviving desire
He's desperate and his frustration mounts to overflowing before giving way to his final and audacious mistake. Finally he caves in, gives up and takes what is offered, because he knows he can, because he knows he wants. He lacks faith and, therefore, patience. The giving of himself has left him empty and old before his time.
Read it as a woman.
She's desperate and her frustration mounts to overflowing before giving way to her final and audacious mistake. Finally she caves in, gives up and takes what is offered, because she knows she can, because she knows she wants. She lacks faith and, therefore, patience. The giving of herself has left her empty and old before her time.
Hal Hartely, in Surviving Desire
Memory Hackers
Scientists have discovered how to 'delete' unwanted memories
A new documentary from PBS reveals how cutting edge science enables us to 'edit' memories - and create new ones from scratch.
Aqui
Fucking imposter syndrome
— "Boy! I'd hate to be your boyfriend! He must go through hell!"
— "Well, I'm worth it"
"Whatever works", diz a certa altura um personagem.
Juliette Lewis, an actress worth liking. Woody Allen too.
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary / A legacy film / Exploring the edges of consciousness
Sobre o filme.
"Follow your interests. There's a good chance that other people are going to be deeply interested too. And you can't force things, and sometimes you've got to set them down and pick them back up." Afirma Gay Dillingham ao explicar que esteve várias vezes para desistir de realizar este documentário.
"Turn on, tune in and drop out. Now this may sound reckless advice today but it's the oldest advice that philosophers and religious leaders have passed on. Detatch (drop out), find what's within. And I stand by that statement."
Timothy Leary, at US Senate Hearing 1966
Getting away with it all messed up
A análise de Hubert Dreyfus ao filme À Bout de Souffle de Jean Luc Godard
Active & Passive Nihilism
Muito, muito interessante
A — What you are saying offends common sense.
B — So does relativity and quantum mechanics. That's the way nature works.
A — But your story doesn't fit into nature as we know it.
B — But we know so little. How many of you know geniuses in your field who you disagree with?
Este filme é fantástico!
(e está legendado em pt!)
(e está legendado em pt!)
The Pillow Book
Where is a book before it is born?
Who are a books parents?
Does a book need two parents: a mother and a father?
Can a book be born inside another book?
Where is the parent book of books?
How old does a book have to be before it can give birth?
Do young books cry and scream if they are not read?
Do they pass words with incontinent abandon?
Sócrates & Sofia
"Aproximei-me de um homem que era considerado sábio. E pensei comigo, que eu era mais bem preparado que ele. Ninguém sabe mais que o outro, mas ele acredita que sim, ainda que não seja verdade. Eu não sei mais que ele, e tenho consciência disso. Por isso, sou mais sábio do que ele."
Sócrates, em O Mundo de Sofia
"Sócrates queria que as pessoas pensassem por si mesmas. Se pensassem sobre as consequências de suas palavras, teriam que julgar-se a si mesmos."
O Mundo de Sofia
"Ele [Sócrates] teme mais os rumores que todos os julgamentos do mundo."
O Mundo de Sofia
Até ao fim do mundo
Boa banda sonora, belas paisagens e gajos giros até ao fim do mundo!
Argumento deveras interessante.
Biochemical addictive dreams.
Burning inside
On my school notebooks
On my desk and on the trees
On the sands of snow
I write your name
On the pages I have read
On all the white pages
Stone, blood, paper or ash
I write your name
On the images of gold
On the weapons of the warriors
On the crown of the king
I write your name
On the jungle and the desert
On the nest and on the brier
On the echo of my childhood
I write your name
On all my scarves of blue
On the moist sunlit swamps
On the living lake of moonlight
I write your name
On the fields, on the horizon
On the birds’ wings
And on the mill of shadows
I write your name
On each whiff of daybreak
On the sea, on the boats
On the demented mountaintop
I write your name
On the froth of the cloud
On the sweat of the storm
On the dense rain and the flat
I write your name
On the flickering figures
On the bells of colors
On the natural truth
I write your name
On the high paths
On the deployed routes
On the crowd-thronged square
I write your name
On the lamp which is lit
On the lamp which isn’t
On my reunited thoughts
I write your name
On a fruit cut in two
Of my mirror and my chamber
On my bed, an empty shell
I write your name
On my dog, greathearted and greedy
On his pricked-up ears
On his blundering paws
I write your name
On the latch of my door
On those familiar objects
On the torrents of a good fire
I write your name
On the harmony of the flesh
On the faces of my friends
On each outstretched hand
I write your name
On the window of surprises
On a pair of expectant lips
In a state far deeper than silence
I write your name
On my crumbled hiding-places
On my sunken lighthouses
On my walls and my ennui
I write your name
On abstraction without desire
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
And for the want of a word
I renew my life
For I was born to know you
To name you
Liberty.
[Paul Eluard]
Self-sacrifice
"The notion that virtue for women lies in self-sacrifice has complicated
the course of women's development by pitting the moral issue of
goodness against the adult questions of responsibility and choice. In
addition, the ethic of self-sacrifice is directly in conflict with the
concept of rights that has, in the past century, supported women's claim
to a fair share of social justice."
Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
ao novo ano!
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| foto do filme, Asas do Desejo, de Wim Wenders |
"A nova perspectiva fez-me pensar sobre o nosso propósito de vida, se a reencarnação e o próprio tempo seriam mesmo como aquilo que nos ensinaram. O que aconteceria se todos os nossos objectivos estivessem trocados? E se o Céu ou o nirvana, na verdade, existissem na 'Terra', através da forma física, e não 'além', na vida depois da morte?
Sinto que optamos por reencarnar sobre a forma física a fim de podermos exprimir o amor, a paixão e toda a gama de emoções humanas que não nos são facultadas no estado de consciência pura e de União. Imagine o que aconteceria se a vida que vivemos neste planeta representasse o espectáculo principal, onde decorre a acção, e onde queremos estar?"
Anita Moorjani, Nascer de Novo
COLD
"Why don't we talk to one another? Why don't we huddle together against the cold wind that blows down the empty streets of this city."
Walter Tevis, Mockingbird
RIP
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| Robin Williams, The Fisher King |
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