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July 13, 2005 at 6:16 am
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I havent written my rant on the pseudo-intellectualist pretentiousness of liking the movie stated in the title on this blog yet, So I thought I might as well go ahead.
I was moved by watching it again on the plane coming home. I found out the basic reasons why everyone seems to adopt it as the best movie ever made, and why the only people who do this are complete idiots.
The basic cinematographic elements of the movie are outstanding to say the least. The story is compelling and interesting, as are the characters who really made that part of the film shine.
The element of filmography which represents to anyone who's read a book, one not reccomended by or featured on MTV, in the past 2 years a nauseating feeling is the films Philosophy hidden behind truly dissapointing dialogue.
The main idea behind it is this truly ridiculous hybrid theory of Buddhist anti-materialism and the standard avante garde rejection of society.
Basically Brad Pitt suggests the astoundingly new theory (HAH!) that society will tell you that society is great and wonderful because evil corporations (Red flag number one) want society to live becauswe it gives them power and money. Society says society is good because it wants to live... Basic enough.
This theory is then coupled with the idea that the more things one owns the more owned they are by their things, which in itself is absolutely basic and idiotic to begin with. (strange how its the richest people who say these things.)
The philosophy is so basic, and yet its the core of the entire hollywood avante-garde. The love of chaos just because regular people want order. The standard rejection of capitalism among all idiot liberals. (Im not tired of that bull shit at all...)
The reason why people like it so much is because they want to seem olike they know something about philosophy, and so they attach like fat digusting barnacles to the nearest, easiest, and most popular possible perpetuator of ideas that will give one the appearance of intellectualism. Not one move for a book, just the standard exhcnage of 10 dolas for a 2 hour crash course in the philosophy of life.
In closing I cant stand this movie, and I regard anyone who likes it beyond the story as an idiot.