RE: American Gods & The Young Pope
March 25, 2020 at 4:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2020 at 4:56 am by Belacqua.)
(March 25, 2020 at 2:45 am)AnubisBarba Wrote: I recently discovered these two TV series and I watched all all episodes and liked them very, very much, especially American Gods, as a work of art exploring new media, and as a type of "letter" to humans...
I watched The Young Pope. What struck me about it was the way Jude Law's character had total confidence in himself -- to the point where he was sure what God would want, on most things. I lack such confidence in myself, so it was kind of a strange idea. Like imagining what you'd do if you were a billionaire.
The New Pope had more sex, which was fun. But I thought the story really fell apart. It lost focus.
American Gods was not so interesting to me... It just seemed to be about more powerful people and less powerful people manipulating each other. And it was like the Marvel movies (Thor and Loki) in that what they call "gods" were just superheroes. There was nothing about the fundamental difference between gods and people that Plato or Nietzsche talked about. I mean, it was a fun story but it reduced and deracinated what's interesting about mythology. I agree with you that turning Media and others into modern gods was a cool idea.
Quote:I hope like this little weird things keep happening to me in order for whatever happens, it's like kind of fun to get a little crazy hopes and faiths after living a life of trying to be all antichrist and exploring reading from benevolent to malign religions and churches and bla bla bla...
Actually, opening an account on this forum, and me talking about this is kind of a... "ritual"... just in case...
But again, I am still sane...
Which I am really bored of.
Welcome to the forum, by the way. We could use a little out-of-the-ordinary craziness here. I look forward to it.
