If a spectator with a philosophical MIND, somebody accustomed to READING books, gets the same kind of INFORMATION in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Read MoreI'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to DESCRIBE what's GOING on. I want to stimulate CONVERSATIONS, and HOPE out of them will come truths.
Read More'Ape HOUSE' is an ambitious novel in several WAYS, for which it is to be ADMIRED, and it is CERTAINLY an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving EMOTIONALLY or as interesting thematically as it could be.
Read MoreI have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if EVERYONE gets PAID when they work, and if they don't work, the people who WORKED on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I BELIEVE that that CREATES better work.
Read MoreProgress has always been understood to be DRIVEN by exceptional white MEN. WHETHER it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations that are the underpinnings of the NATION, or our economic ingenuity, all this has been articulated through narratives of exceptional white men.
Read MorePeople just WANT to dig; they want to DANCE. They don't want to WORK all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but COMMUNICATION should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
Read MoreThe classic war MOVIES of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical THEMES: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of MAN by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone LIKE Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who TURNS his boys into instruments of death.
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