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Re: Gawther than Who?
by Squire-of-Gothos (Brian0049@hotmail.com)
on Nov 05, 2003 - 11:01 AM
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I'd say many of the general premises of his work are finding love in New York, and he did do some whacky early films like Everything you wanted to know about sex but where afraid to ask (he battles a giant tit). But his essays and his films cover his deeply depressed atitude towards the nature of man, morality, God or a lack there of, and societies problem. Of course it's usualy capoed by a wry optimism, and humour.
"Your self confidence is notch above Kafka's"
The universe is expanding, and if the universe is everything...and if it's expanding...someday it will break apart and that's the end of everything...what's the point?"
His mother leans over, slaps the kid and scolds: "What is that your business!"
"Maybe it's because I'm depressed so often that I'm drawn to writers like Kafka, Dostoevski and to a filmmaker like Bergman. I think I have all the symptoms and problems that their characters are occupied with: an obsession with death, an obsession with God or the lack of God, the question of why we are here. Almost all of my work is autobiographical--exaggerated but true."
"My analyst was a strict Freudian. If I had been going all this time [200 years] I'd probably almost be cured by now."
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"To you I'm an atheist, to God I'm the loyal opposition"
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
Just some of the quotes I could find relating to death, just one of the themes he deals with. He is a sort of optimistic cynic, pointing fun at whats wrong, but never trying to say that he has the answer, or that he knows better.
"I'm what you'd call a teleological, existential atheist--I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey."
"When I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide; everyone was too unhappy."
"No matter how elaborate a philosophical system you work out, in the end it's gotta be incomplete."
I dig his flicks, and their social commentary, and their atitude of pointing out the ubsurd, without asserting an overbearing and most likely incorrect answer to peoples problems. It's vey effective, and fits his meeke nature. Not that I think your meeke, your stuff is definately more biting, but it gets to the bottom of the problem effectively.
just thought I'd clarify.
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