At 7:34 PM -0500 12/9/99, Cntryforce@aol.com wrote:
> Films like "Fight Club" and "American Beauty" point to the sense of
>wrongness, but they both misinterpret it; they offer, as advice, biological
>distraction as a means of coping with our problems, but no real solutions.
I don't see lots of movies and I don't have TV, but I did see American Beauty.
I thought it was very interesting in the way it showed a man tired of his
static patterns. Yes in a sense, the hero was momentarily distracted by
biological urges. But in the movie he transcends those urges as he
discovers a wonder in his own power to break his static bonds, simply by
ceasing to accept social rules anymore. I was reminded of Pirsig in that
movie - a man who wakes up from a coma and stares at his hand with wonder.
That was basically the heart of American Beauty.
The most interesting thing was the immense hatred unleashed by those who
depend upon dad when he awakens thus. He must be killed. And he is. I
thought it a highly moral tale, actually.
jc
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