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by dardan
Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Perplexing Reviews
Replies: 62
Views: 34538

Re: Perplexing Reviews

djross wrote:
dardan wrote:Spirit is interchangeable with morality/humanity here, which doesn't in itself form the exposition, but rather constitutes a necessary part of demonstrating how any attempt at humanity or morality was completely futile. *That is why Saul needed to be who he is, for any strand of alleged agency needs to be proven empty and a completely dependent variable of the machine that was Nazi Germany.


So a false situation is set up in order to make a banal point. It wasn't "any attempt": it was an absurd and preposterous attempt on some grand scale of meaningfulness. It would never happen and it was pure Hollywood (hence the awards): it was the equivalent of giving Sandra Bullock a dead kid in Gravity. This is why I began my review by asking about the motive for the film. And I don't at all accept the idea that "any attempt at humanity or morality was completely futile": a film where Primo Levi spends his time trying to teach Jean some lines of Dante and their meaning, in another language, could perhaps be a masterpiece, but only if the film is exposed to the aporia I mentioned above. Chances are it would be just as bad as this one, or almost.


So then you deny the premise of Saul having given up all along? It more than anything was a "I am a dead man walking, but I want to do this one last thing", so that he could finally have some kind of much desired control, agency and purpose rather than being a cog in a machine. At some point he seemingly even convinces himself it is his son, battling between and trying to reconcile two realities. This was not the equivalent of the dead kid in Gravity.
by djross
Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Perplexing Reviews
Replies: 62
Views: 34538

Re: Perplexing Reviews

dardan wrote:Spirit is interchangeable with morality/humanity here, which doesn't in itself form the exposition, but rather constitutes a necessary part of demonstrating how any attempt at humanity or morality was completely futile. *That is why Saul needed to be who he is, for any strand of alleged agency needs to be proven empty and a completely dependent variable of the machine that was Nazi Germany.


So a false situation is set up in order to make a banal point. It wasn't "any attempt": it was an absurd and preposterous attempt on some grand scale of meaningfulness. It would never happen and it was pure Hollywood (hence the awards). It was the equivalent of giving Sandra Bullock a dead kid in Gravity: dead children are the easiest, in fact automatic, way to generate the idea of emotional meaningfulness, and just think, all the writer has to do is write the words "there is a dead child" and it is mission accomplished. This is why I began my review by asking about the motive for the film. And I don't at all accept the idea that "any attempt at humanity or morality was completely futile": a film where Primo Levi spends his few spare moments trying to teach Jean some lines of Dante and their meaning, in another language, could perhaps be a masterpiece, but only if the film is exposed to the aporia I mentioned above. Chances are it would be just as bad as this one, or almost.