Kate P. is me in this thread too.
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Kate P. - Jul 12, 2004 6:20:48 am PDT #173 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2004 6:28:05 am PDT #174 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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I really wanted to defend the movie, but I couldn't find the right words. So thanks.
Stephanie - Jul 12, 2004 6:45:45 am PDT #175 of 10001
Trust my rage
RE: Eternal Sunshine
Actually, I really liked the movie for many of the reasons Kate mentioned. I had actually forgotten that I was watching Jim Carrey until he made that funny face when trying to wake up. Also, I'm having trouble coming up with the rights words exactly, but I liked the feel/look of the film.
What I was trying to say was that the movie seemed to me like it had some sort of theme, but I couldn't find it. I wasn't trying to say the movie was not good because it didn't have a theme - I was just wondering if anyone else had some insight that I had missed. Kate, it wasn't so much that I thought the movie needed something as much as I was wondering if I missed the something.
I once had to write a paper on the uses of pink and green in Lord of the Flies. That's not the sort of thing I'm looking for. I'm just wondering if the director had an idea in the back of his head that he wanted to get across and maybe I missed it.
I loved Pulp Fiction as a very original exercise in creative storytelling. But I would have liked it better if I had walked away thinking that it had shown me something about life that I hadn't seen before. That's my only point/question.
editted to explain what I'm talking about.
P.M. Marc - Jul 12, 2004 7:07:47 am PDT #176 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ah, to heck with it. Styling a link as hidden is too hard.
Scrappy - Jul 12, 2004 7:08:40 am PDT #177 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
See. I think Pulp Fiction is ALL about a theme. The whole structure of the film is built around Jules and Vincent's choice whether to continue to be evil or to try to do good. Vincent decides to keep doing evil and ends up dead. Jules decides to be moral and lives. All the characters are presented with clear choices and what happens to them follows from whether they choose the righteous path or not. Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 7:10:30 am PDT #178 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Styling a link as hidden is too hard.
Doesn't it work if you put the font color inside the link's a href tag?
eta: okay, kinda hidden.
Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 7:11:46 am PDT #179 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
See. I think Pulp Fiction is ALL about a theme. The whole structure of the film is built around Jules and Vincent's choice whether to continue to be evil or to try to do good. Vincent decides to keep doing evil and ends up dead. Jules decides to be moral and lives. All the characters are presented with clear choices and what happens to them follows from whether they choose the righteous path or not. Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.
Yes! I loves me some spicy Scrappy brains.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2004 7:14:12 am PDT #180 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Watch the film again and you'll be amazed at how well explored the theme actually is.
I will, next time. Thanks.
Now I wonder what Plei was trying to pull.
Jim - Jul 12, 2004 7:18:50 am PDT #181 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
What I was trying to say was that the movie seemed to me like it had some sort of theme, but I couldn't find it.
The theme is precisely stated in the final conversation between Clem and Joel in the hallway: even if you know at the start that a relationship is going to fall apart - and you always do, once you're an adult - it's still worth having the elationship. Memory is just the MacGuffin - the film is about accepting that relationships are always painful.
Lilty Cash - Jul 12, 2004 7:45:14 am PDT #182 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Caution: Guilty Joy Warning
Did anyone else see Anchorman this weekend? I was in dire need of a movie that would make me laugh until it hurt. I read a review that said "This is a great movie for the kind of people who think that a dog getting drop-kicked off a bridge is funny.
So, of course, I went. And I've got to say, I still heart Will Farrell.