With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)
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> Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
(Where is the friend's house, and Through the olive trees are my other favourites, though truly all are fantastic)
They do historical, current, American, gay, black, Latino, female, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. films without any pretense other than a film in its honest self.
I've been introduced to so many films and ideas without pretext from the CC that I consider the fee worth it even as I return to the high seas.
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speaks to me on a spiritual level. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
PS - if you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m sure people have different interpretations.
From my perspective, absurdism seems like Greek stoicism, but created by a deeply depressed person. The stoic perspective is that we're capable of persevering through the worst possible situations in life and that our intelligences, minds are able to handle such problems, that if we just listen to ourselves we can see how to navigate the most difficult scenarios and to thrive despite them. What is also appealing to me about stoicism is that it's not only a perspective on life, it's a set of practices which can help you adopt the perspective (sort of like Zen koans are supposed to help you adopt the Zen mindset).
On the other hand, what I've heard of absurdism seems to tell me that its overall outlook is very similar, but it sounds far, far more depressive, which is quite impressive if I'm comparing it with a philosophy that tries to convince you it's good to think about your child's death when you're telling them goodnight.
Sorry if the take seems too hot.
The main issues I had with stoicism was that 1) it struck me as a bit too much tied to a particular type of person (that I am perhaps not), and 2) while much more practical than the faith I grew up with, it still often felt a bit too much stuck with aphorisms and not enough of an entire 'system'.
I found zen, even without the support of a community, to scratch a bit more of that itch I felt every since I left the comprehensive religion that I was part of.
That said, I do love the stoics.
I think Nietzsche criticism against stoicism is on point. I would compare Absurdism which Nietzschean thought. The difference being Albert Camus is much more relatedable for the modern working man.
I definitely want to read Nietzsche. I'm currently trying to get a broader perspective, and it seems that Nietzsche should be next in line.
Would you care to outline what exactly was Nietzsche's criticism?
As for Nietzsche, I can't outline what he said. Any summary would be a disservice. In order to comprehend his ideas, he must be studied seriously. Otherwise, you might get the impression that he is a madman rambling.
I only will paste the following excerpt to give you enough curiosity for further reading:
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise—and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves—Stoicism is self-tyranny—Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature?... But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation.
I identify with the director.
I identify with the actors.
Love the honesty
Those movies moved me in ways a book simply couldn't. And I've tried reading Tolkien, and just couldn't pay attention. A little hack I do (since I will never read all the books in the world), is read the last line of a book I randomly picked up in the library or a book shop, and commit that line to memory. I've memorized ~100 'last sentences' of books now!
Maybe that loophole will work for your ADD.
The aphantasia test: imagine a person rolling a ball across the table.
What color was the person's hair? If it didn't occur to you, you may have aphantasia.
(This ability, I assume, is key in reading books. It's like an ongoing movie in your head if you can do it. I can't.)
I imagined what you said, but my thought was focused on the ball, and so the person was "unfocused", or "not as detailed" - I'm not even sure what gender they were.
Oh, and I'm colour blind (which is relatively common), so probably don't think of colours in the same way as others.
I do have a sort of movie playing in my head, but it’s not really a visual or auditory experience. It’s more like a running list of bullet points; a stream of facts. Visual descriptions are chock full of these facts, but they’re all usually inconsequential to the plot so I tune them out.
I find aphantasia very strange. I don’t lack a mind’s eye, but I do lack the ability to use it while conscious. My dreams are extremely visual and movie-like, but my conscious experience isn’t really visual at all. It wasn’t until recently that I learned “day dreams” are named that way because for most people they resemble dreams, but mine don’t at all.
I love books, I love reading, but my main struggle while reading was having to go back and read a few pages again and again when I caught myself lost in random thoughts. Sometimes it took quite a long time to finish a simple book because of this.
Most books today have and audiobook version. So just try both at the same time. It's less likely you'll get distracted and if you do, you can just catch up to what you have been listening.
But most important trick is to read things you like and that interest you. Don't force on books that aren't interesting just to say that you finished it.
I hope this helps.