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Such a great and touching story. Also makes me a lot more thankful for my life too.
Such a great and touching story. Also makes me a lot more thankful for my life too.
dafox wrote: ↑February 24th, 2019, 8:42 amWhen I think about the ideas in this lecture (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hx0qwsFvE) along with my taste in film over the years I can’t help but be shocked over why I’ve been so captivated by certain movies I love. Films like Tess, Memento, Vertigo, Rebecca, Notorious, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Pi, Ikiru, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Summer Interlude have shaken me the most. I may have “overdosed” on medicinal marijuana last night but if any of my posts are to be to taken remotely seriously, ever, it’s this one.
Edit: lol damn, I really am painfully honest/open to a fault. I exhaust just about everyone around me with these epiphanies of mine so I guess I should try journaling or something since I'm too poor for a therapist worth seeing.
Whatever the intentions behind this joke may be I guess I should try to elaborate/spell out my very serious and sincere post. Damasio compares/equates art to science and social fluency because of their roles in confronting, understanding, and ultimately dealing very serious problems but art does this in a much broader, more encompassing way. He uses homeostasis as a metaphor since nothing regulates the emotions the way art does, like that screencap suggests. Emotions deal with things like hypochondriasis, pain processing and the placebo effect so clearly theres a therapeutic element to art as opposed to just conscious problem solving/comprehension i.e. "the moral of the story". When it comes to the efficacy of confronting, understanding and solving problems via art you can just look up Einstein saying that he learned more from Dostoevsky than any other thinker.mchekhov 2: Chek Harder wrote: ↑February 25th, 2019, 3:40 amdafox wrote: ↑February 24th, 2019, 8:42 amWhen I think about the ideas in this lecture (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hx0qwsFvE) along with my taste in film over the years I can’t help but be shocked over why I’ve been so captivated by certain movies I love. Films like Tess, Memento, Vertigo, Rebecca, Notorious, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Pi, Ikiru, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Summer Interlude have shaken me the most. I may have “overdosed” on medicinal marijuana last night but if any of my posts are to be to taken remotely seriously, ever, it’s this one.
Edit: lol damn, I really am painfully honest/open to a fault. I exhaust just about everyone around me with these epiphanies of mine so I guess I should try journaling or something since I'm too poor for a therapist worth seeing.
i want this on my grave
Not all of us have their parents pay for their advanced degrees so I don't blame myself at all for getting high and making overly sentimental and detailed posts relating movies/art/life after dealing with all of the strains of being a destitute student. I guess my "problem" is that I don't take this place seriously enough to be embarrassed by relating art to personal experiences. That was the content of the video I posted btw. I've liked/used to like some of you over the years but I really do regret ever having an internet life since even a site dedicated to a filmmaker I adore has too much boring garbage and too little meaningful discussion, sorry about trying to have some more of the latter. Don't feign sanctimony either since we all know that this place only exists because the internet is too addicting and old habits die hard. Have fun trolling other people hundreds/thousands of miles away.