Gunnar goes...
Confonted with the big questions in life an atheist might face some difficulties, unless they're hardcore materialist that have a sorted relationship with grim death.
I was a bit worried that this film would be a philosophy 101-lesson about the emptiness of a materialistic middle class life. And to some degree in is, but it still has some original observations and curious takes on the subject and is well worth the time. Just seeing the content faces of the coptic munks living on an existence minimum (to us) is worth the ticket.
The climax offers both answers and questions, and you leave the cinema a reflecting individual asking yourself fundamental questions, whether you agree with the director (Gunnar) or not. Just as Socrates would have wanted it.
The movie is maybe a bit slow and could have spared itself the many artistic pauses in the monologue, but it wasn't to bothering. It gave the good quotes time to sink in, but some of the banalities didn't need to be followed by 5 seconds of silence, in my opinion.
I was a bit worried that this film would be a philosophy 101-lesson about the emptiness of a materialistic middle class life. And to some degree in is, but it still has some original observations and curious takes on the subject and is well worth the time. Just seeing the content faces of the coptic munks living on an existence minimum (to us) is worth the ticket.
The climax offers both answers and questions, and you leave the cinema a reflecting individual asking yourself fundamental questions, whether you agree with the director (Gunnar) or not. Just as Socrates would have wanted it.
The movie is maybe a bit slow and could have spared itself the many artistic pauses in the monologue, but it wasn't to bothering. It gave the good quotes time to sink in, but some of the banalities didn't need to be followed by 5 seconds of silence, in my opinion.
- TheHorn100
- 8 feb 2011