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The video draws a certain comparison that's always stuck with me, to one of philosopher Walter Benjamin's essays where he writes on the philosophy of history and the nature of progress, and in particular it mentions what he wrote about one of expressionist Paul Klee's famous paintings...
"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress"
The whole film when it comes down to it is about this chaotic reality and what it means for our lives, explored through each of these different battles our protagonists are having with time, the subsequent loss they each face with the choices they've had to make for the sake of progress, and how they each end up coming to accept it all on their own terms so they can actually live happily (which is juxtaposed in the film by the chairman and Morio, neither of whom could come to accept this reality--they kept fruitlessly fighting against the storm, and as a result eventually withering away lonely and in despair, wasting their lives away. You can't fight history and the progress it now drives forward, you have possibility but never all. And it's tragic thing, especially for those who spend their lives desperately fighting this). The film seems very messy and way too compact at first glance to a lot of people (at least it did for me) but when you sit down and watch it with the right perspective it really is quite a narrow, focused, well-explored commentary on it's themes.
Apologies for rambling haha, I don't expect a response since you said you need a rewatch. You're ptw Millennium Actress? Awesome. :D Be sure to let me know when you watch it if you want a discussion, cause if it looks like I can talk a lot about Paprika... That's the one film I like more haha. ;P
And yes David Lynch! His films have always seemed right up my alley, and I knew of that comparison, so it's weird I've never gotten around to watching them. I've been planning on though, and now I have a suggestion for where to start I should hopefully do so soon. Thank you. :)
Are you of the camp that it's just provoking and wild imagery for the sake of provoking and wild imagery (somehow an actual camp), with little in the way of explored themes, or do you have an interpretation? Also since you seem to love it too, I REALLY recommend the directors other films too--namely Millennium Actress. It's similar in a lot of what it explores, but also a lot more grounded (but just as wonderfully creative, with the same 10/10 timeless Hirasawa soundtrack).
that's a good response
however since you're a GIRL CLEARLy Yuri On Ice with it's hot yaoi dudes is the show you'd like the most (( being that that's all female anime fans care about obviously )) so you're obviously lying ;D
WHAT IS IT DOING AT THE BOTTOM HUH