nim-rod77
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Both art and food are vessels for consumption.
Fast Food / Cool Art: It fills you, but doesn't nourish. It's more or less superficial satisfaction.
Optimal Food / Sane Art: It feeds you fully and sustains growth. It's deliberate and complete and holy.
The Non-Food: The worthless stuff. It just sits there. And the dead enjoy it.
Poison Hidden as Food / Lying Art: It looks beautifully made, compelling and deliberate, and inevitably has bits of food within. But in the end, it is a lie wrapped in the guise of true sustenance.
Fast Food / Cool Art: It fills you, but doesn't nourish. It's more or less superficial satisfaction.
Optimal Food / Sane Art: It feeds you fully and sustains growth. It's deliberate and complete and holy.
The Non-Food: The worthless stuff. It just sits there. And the dead enjoy it.
Poison Hidden as Food / Lying Art: It looks beautifully made, compelling and deliberate, and inevitably has bits of food within. But in the end, it is a lie wrapped in the guise of true sustenance.
This film offers a devastating portrait of ideological isolation, a case study in the destructive power of unexamined and unilaterally enforced principles.
The father's core hypocrisy lies in his powerful, deliberate silence. While the son found sanity within sovereignty, the father enforces a personal tyranny within the home. His rigid structure demands obedience and self-sufficiency, yet he systematically refuses debate. He meets the son's attempts to articulate his political vision not with reasoned argument, but with swift, definitive violence. His actions betray his own purported ideal: his "authority" is based purely on brute force used to crush the son's intellectual and political exploration. He is the active agent of the very violence his rhetoric claims to transcend, savagely murdering intellectual engagement.
The climax, the father's unearned monologue after the tragedy, provides the ultimate irony. Having silenced his son throughout the runtime, he uses his final podium to rage against an abstract systemic enemy, "THEY," demanding that the son communicate better or "THEY" will win. The irony is total.
This moment exposes the hollowness of his philosophy. By blaming "THEM", he is failing his most basic duty to his kin.
The author? A dead world view .. and what else can atheists produce but death.
The father's core hypocrisy lies in his powerful, deliberate silence. While the son found sanity within sovereignty, the father enforces a personal tyranny within the home. His rigid structure demands obedience and self-sufficiency, yet he systematically refuses debate. He meets the son's attempts to articulate his political vision not with reasoned argument, but with swift, definitive violence. His actions betray his own purported ideal: his "authority" is based purely on brute force used to crush the son's intellectual and political exploration. He is the active agent of the very violence his rhetoric claims to transcend, savagely murdering intellectual engagement.
The climax, the father's unearned monologue after the tragedy, provides the ultimate irony. Having silenced his son throughout the runtime, he uses his final podium to rage against an abstract systemic enemy, "THEY," demanding that the son communicate better or "THEY" will win. The irony is total.
This moment exposes the hollowness of his philosophy. By blaming "THEM", he is failing his most basic duty to his kin.
The author? A dead world view .. and what else can atheists produce but death.
Wow. Such a great script, such a great thriller. Perfect acting, charismatic actors .. just a delight.
Haven't seen anything like it . Went from laughing to crying to laughing again. So much conflict , so much sanity!
The critique? Alright, I'll spell it out considering the polarization of this movie.
My critique is about the son's actor, not resembling any of the parents in grace or beauty, and about the dream. The dream could've been less .. erotic, but I guess it is rather realistic that way.
It is so rare to find art that is so uplifting and hopeful .. and representing reality accurately.
Praise God!
Haven't seen anything like it . Went from laughing to crying to laughing again. So much conflict , so much sanity!
The critique? Alright, I'll spell it out considering the polarization of this movie.
My critique is about the son's actor, not resembling any of the parents in grace or beauty, and about the dream. The dream could've been less .. erotic, but I guess it is rather realistic that way.
It is so rare to find art that is so uplifting and hopeful .. and representing reality accurately.
Praise God!
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