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Life at the Movies
Comedy hurts
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pveugelaers
Movie article Life can be so painful, we may curse it, or in order to survive, try and laugh at it. Sometimes, life can’t be laughed at—there is no doubt about that. But if people can handle their pain by laughing at it, that is a coping mechanism, even as the heart aches. The proverb says,…
The sweetest letdown?
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pveugelaers
In the young adult drama Paper Towns (2015, USA), based on the novel by John Green, Quentin has had a crush on his next door neighbor Margo since he was eight years old and she moved into his neighborhood. They became friends, but when she asked him out for a wild prank, he refused. That might…
A lifeline out of despair
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pveugelaers
A sense of utter desperation underlies Al Pacino’s voice as A.J. Maglehorn, a down-to-earth locksmith who is grappling with the loss of the love of his life, Clara. Pacino fills A.J’s angst with gravelly resonance on the soundtrack’s voice over. A.J. is writing love letters, which are an ode to her, but he is also stuck…
When life happens
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary Absurdism, existentialism, and meaninglessness forms the backdrop of films like Accident (1967, UK) and Annie Hall (1977, USA), but for me the experience of those kinds of films are incomplete. The philosophy ruined it, though cleverly conceived. Fantastic Four (2015, USA) runs in a different philosophical direction, which is more on the…
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