(January 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I'm not sure I agree at all with your opening statement, I personally think it is deliberately a philosophical work, so does Professor Knowlson, Beckett's Friend and official Biographer, he said 'It asks all the big philosophical questions - about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between - but in a way that isn't limited to a particular place or era.'Really, I think there's a difference between something asking questions about life and something making the viewers ask questions about life.
MM
By the same logic you use, A Serbian Film would be a film about the history of Post-Cold-War Serbia, and not just a snuff film that uses its horrors as a metaphor for life in Serbia after the Cold War.
Ok, I see what you are saying. I still think it valid to ask if people think its a significant philosophical work. I take your response as a no.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
