[OT] Dark Star (1974) - the platinum age of movies

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 03/09/2010 01:40, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/2/10 17:03 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> The scene was of the main character driving on a busy highway into a
>>> crowded metropolis. The meaning was to question the veracity and
>>> meaning of perception, existence, and human interaction - all of which
>>> are central themes in the movie.
>>
>> This sounds more like an after the fact rationalization!
>
> That's the thing with art - a relational value.
>
> Andrei


I also saw Solyaris and like Walter I didn't find it to be that special. 
I haven't given it a second view, which could (potentially) improve my 
appreciation of the movie. Such has happened before, with 2001 for 
example, which is one of my top 5 all-time favorite movies, but which I 
also wasn't too impressed with my first viewing.

But that increased appreciation would likely only happen if I gained a 
better understanding of the moive. So if indeed much of it is 
subjective/abstract/open-to-interpretation then that wouldn't happen, I 
generally don't like this kind of thing. (That's why I dislike almost 
all David Lynch movies... a level of magnitude above Solyaris in that 
regard)

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer