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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type of hi

Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm


Who killed cinema ?

 


Patrick (H) Willems

Cinema is dead. It died 1962, I think it was in October--Aki Kaurismäki

 


 



Cinema is not dead ,  long live cinema ! Best of 2023 :

  • Past Lives

  • Oppenheimer (Not really , actually the most overrated film I have seen in a long time. I did not like it when I saw it originally  , but given critic reviews gave it another try  before finally adding this verdict)

Among other things as someone pointed out the most annoying thing about this film : "The constant loud as fuck music during conversations made it feel almost like I was watching a never-ending movie trailer". 
  • Killers of The Flower Moon

  • Poor Things

  • Zone of Interest

  • The Holdovers

  • Anatomy of a Fall

  • All of Us Strangers

  • Anselm

  • Fallen leaves


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