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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 Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ... hadn’t I better end my “Notes” here? I believe I made a mistake in beginning to write them, anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I’ve been writing this story; so it’s hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.  Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are expressly gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are...
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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


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Taxidermia (2006)

 



Taxidermia is Hungarian filmmaker’s Gyorgy Pálfi’s second feature film. Grandfather, father, son. War, communism, post-communism. Lust, gluttony, vanity. Three generations, three eras, three sins. All tales wrapped up in surrealism and scatology. To each generation corresponds one era, to each era, one sin. To each of the three parts, punishments. The film is introduced by a voice-over that ends with the following statement: “If something is coming to an end, then its beginning is also important”. We are soon to discover the beginning of the story of these three damned generations which are entranced in Hungarian History.

Gyorgy Palfi who five years ago gave us Hukkle, or Hiccups, an elegantly odd, or perhaps oddly elegant quasi-silent comedy about strange goings-on in a remote village. Now, in conventional narrative terms, he has expanded his range and ambition and given us a bizarre and intricately interrelated magic-realist parable with a literary feel. It concerns the nightmarish squalor encoded in one unfortunate man's DNA: a genetic narrative that unfolds over three generations, or rather degenerations. Inspecting the details of this movie will allow you to see how they inter-connect. However, inspecting them may also make you want to clamp your hand over your mouth and run out into the cinema foyer, heading for the lavatories.

Csaba Czene is the grandfather, Morosgovanyi, a sexually frustrated army orderly in the second world war. Gergo Trocsanyi is his son Balatony, a grotesquely obese speed-eater who is part of the postwar Hungarian team promoting this national sport. Finally there is Balatony's son Lajos, played by the German actor Marc Bischoff: a lonely taxidermist obsessed with the ultimate challenge.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jul/13/comedy.drama



    1. Killers of the Flower Moon scored 7.6 out of 10 on IMDb.
      Killers of the Flower Moon scored 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

    1. Release date: August 14, 2009 (USA)
      Director: György Pálfi
      Languages: English, Russian, Hungarian
      Distributed by: Regent Releasing, Memento Films
      Based on: short stories; by Lajos Parti Nagy





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