haven't read the third man actually. but i'm a lazy ass, so i might watch the film instead. :PQuoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
haven't read the third man actually. but i'm a lazy ass, so i might watch the film instead. :PQuoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
It's basically a glorified screenplay anyway. He wrote it in preparation for the film, so it's short and concise and not much different from the film. I'd say you have the right idea.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
Don't stress over it; she has her opinion, and it is one that I don't share, either.Quoting Mara (view post)
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
I finally finished Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the other day. Kant is my co-pilot.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Finally finished Sartre's Nausea. I'd have to say I found it to be a mixed blessing. I really enjoyed both the beginning and ending of the book but there was a long middle stretch that I found grew quite monotonous, repetitive and felt ultimately superfluous. I liked it for the first 60 pages or so up through the first dissipation of the nausea (jazz/ragtime record)... then it got tedious... then I started liking it again from the tree/root thought sequence up through to the end.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Watch Brighton Rock, great Attenborough performance and very quality film as well.Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
So tell her your good characters ended up taking you through an interesting plotline.Quoting Mara (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Bought Irvine Welsh's Glue for $5...I guess that will be the next novel I read after finishing a couple of academic texts.
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7
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Finished Beloved. Wonderful book. Fizzled a bit in the end, but still a wonderful read. Definitely worthy of its reputation.
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Plastic surgery for the intellectual. They stole my idea!
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
Wow... frontin' made easy.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
All this talk of Graham Greene made me go with The End of the Affair as my next novel.
Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
One of my fave books.
*yays*
I read Wuthering Heights. I question your taste in men.Quoting SpaceOddity (view post)
Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.
Quoting Duncan (view post)
I like 'em otherworldly 'n' sadistic.
*persists*
Wuthering Heights is many things.Quoting Duncan (view post)
Romantic is not one of them.
(Sorry, Sp.Od.)
Quoting Mara (view post)
What do you consider romantic?
I've only seen the film but at least Wyler's Wuthering Heights seems pretty obviously romantic to me.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I see Wuthering Heights being about obsession and vengeance. The emotions are powerful, but they're not actually very loving.Quoting SpaceOddity (view post)
I'm not sure how to answer your question, because romance can be lots of different things. For this instance, though, I will narrow it to one point: Romance is caring about someone else more than yourself.
[]That qualifies as caring about someone else more than yourself.Quoting Mara (view post)
I understand where you're coming from, but it's too little, too late for me. Catherine is a selfish, shallow person and I don't think she's capable of much genuine self-sacrifice.Quoting SpaceOddity (view post)
Yet, there is no more self-sacrificing character because there's nothing greater to sacrifice.Quoting Mara (view post)
Which novels do you regard romantic? P&P?
Austen's incapable of representing love on account of her observational orientation and ideological opposition to transcendence.
Picked up Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Will begin shortly.
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The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
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I think we may be getting to the root of the problem.Quoting SpaceOddity (view post)
I, myself, have an opposition to transcendence.
Don't get me wrong-- I really respect and admire Wuthering Heights. But I think our ideas of romance are very different. No harm in that!
Finished The End of the Affair and loved it. Definitely among Greene's best work. I'm now about 100 pages into The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.