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- CommentTimeSep 11th 2015 edited
No, why ever would I? On that quote, the first sentence could easily be read as solipsistic nonsense, the second a false inference from it, and the last demonstrably untrue. Of course, if it's taken out of context (perhaps like many an Einstein quote), I'll happily concede. -
- CommentAuthorPawelStroinski
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
I'm glad you never read any philosophy.http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website -
- CommentAuthorPawelStroinski
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Of course, Hesse is a novelist, but that doesn't change my point. There is a lot of philosophy and quite a bit of psychology that makes a very similar point.http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015 edited
Captain Future wrote
Dreams are my reality ...
Only if all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
That said, Inside Out is really VERY clever, and in wry contrast to Big Snooze 6, a pretty darn original concept. A truly new and fresh Pixar after a disturbing slew of humdrum sequels.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
PawelStroinski wrote
Of course, Hesse is a novelist, but that doesn't change my point. There is a lot of philosophy and quite a bit of psychology that makes a very similar point.
There are also quite a few permanent guests in asylums claiming exclusive right to reality or indeed denying it altogether. So I'm not entirely sure the simple fact of making that particular point is enough to imbue it with value!'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
PawelStroinski wrote
I'm glad you never read any philosophy.
Me too. -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Martijn wrote
Captain Future wrote
Dreams are my reality ...
Only if all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
I love how you answer La Boum with Edgar Alan Poe.Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorPawelStroinski
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Martijn wrote
PawelStroinski wrote
Of course, Hesse is a novelist, but that doesn't change my point. There is a lot of philosophy and quite a bit of psychology that makes a very similar point.
There are also quite a few permanent guests in asylums claiming exclusive right to reality or indeed denying it altogether. So I'm not entirely sure the simple fact of making that particular point is enough to imbue it with value!
Well, if we look at this that way, we should put all Far Eastern thinkers into asylums as well.
The point doesn't deny the existence of objective reality. It's just that everyone perceives the world so differently that the subjective point of view becomes a world of its own. Buddhism (and if the meme cropping up on Facebook is any true, so did Stoicism... and I should check if that Marcus Aurelius thought is really true as I have the book at home) claims that perception is basically almost everything. (when it comes to similarities between Stoicism and Buddhism, I'd also claim that the Western version of nirvana is what they called apatheia, the ideal of non-suffering, in fact non-emotional sage. That's basically reaching nirvana!)
As I said, it doesn't deny the objective reality at all. But it's stating merely that there are infinite ways to perceive the objective world and that our existence is subjective and therefore our little microcosm (human as a little world representing the world at large, that's Plato actually) is a world of its own. If you take the point further (even beyond Schopenhauer who claimed that the world is Will and Representation, of course he referred to Far East quite a lot... I can't say I know about his work much though!), you could get as far as Heidegger and admit the ultimate equality between subject and object: we live in the world that we try to understand and based on that understanding (later philosophy includes works of art in particular as the way of understanding) we act. This is a very simplified and shortened history of modern hermeneutics, BTW.http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
So basically you are advocating infinite diversity in infinite combinations?'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorPawelStroinski
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Well, not so sure. While hermeneutics do claim that the subjectivity of the interpreter plays a big role in interpretation, they do NOT claim that every interpretation is valid. And there is of course idiosyncracy of the philosophers' thought that comes into play.
A couple of things, where many people will not agree with hermeneutics on that very basis. The main hermeneutic philosophers, except maybe Dilthey (whose biography I don't know well, sadly) and Heidegger (who toyed with theology but was never religious per se), were devout Christians (namely protestants). It makes a lot of sense because hermeneutics was... originally a tool used to interpret the Bible (codified by St. Augustine in De doctrina Christiana). In general though, I would venture to say that every philosophical system that looks for meaning is hermeneutic at heart. Because that's what it's about. It's about making sense of the world around us and acting on that meaningful aspect.
However, the existential hermeneutists, which go as far as to Heidegger (though Dilthey, the founder of modern hermeneutics, while coming from the late 19th century discussion on the difference between natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) and humanities (Geisteswissenschaften), makes some existential points) do not take some things into account. I don't know if Heidegger thought considering mental illness would be to complex or should we simply defer it to the relative lack of knowledge about how mental illness works in general. In other words, mental pathology does not come into play at all. Second thing is that there were so called hermeneutists of suspicion, which by no means were religious. The names mentioned by Paul Ricoeur (the great French hermeneutist) were Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. It was about the fact that there is underlying meaning but it's biased either on social issues (Marx), the Will to Power (Nietzsche) or sexuality (Freud). So while it was important in developing the very thought, it's too biased to take it into account in the existential sense.
I mentioned the idiosyncrasies. In case of Hans-Georg Gadamer, interpreting a work of art takes a form of conversation between the work, set in its time and in its own context, which has to be deciphered, to take the form of fusion of horizons, where the agreement is found. Ricoeur started with anthropology, which means that reading and understanding art leads us to a better understanding of our own humanity. In both cases however, the interpretation is of practical not theoretical use. In other words, our understanding helps us act. As Gadamer says, interpretation doesn't belong to the logos, the theoretical reason (the word, used in Greek philosophy of course connects reason with verbal reasoning, discouse; as opposed to the Latin ratio, which originally had purely mathematical meaning, still retained in English), but rather phronesis, which can be translated as the practical wisdom or prudence.
It's hard to say which interpretations are invalid, however our interpretation of the world (or a work of art, while hermeneutics, as described above, took an aesthetic turn, both Gadamer and Ricoeur constantly repeat that they do accept the existential hermeneutics of Heidegger) informs our action. And that understanding we have makes the subjective world we perceive our own (a caveat, Heidegger, Ricoeur or Gadamer, any of the hermeneutic philosophers in fact, never, in fact, refer to the Far Eastern thought).http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Steven wrote
PawelStroinski wrote
I'm glad you never read any philosophy.
Me too.
No offense to any involved, but whenever the discussion turns to philosophy and the next post is an 8-paragraph Pawel entry, I check out a bit... -
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Philosophy is the art of drumming one's fingers. -
- CommentAuthorPawelStroinski
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2015
Somewhere since the mid-1800s I'd kind of agree. There was a time when philosophy was very relevant in terms of saying what to do rather than simply describe the everyday world, which it does now. Sometimes I'm looking back at the Renaissance and think how actually it was largely about what and how to do rather than "how it is".http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website -
- CommentTimeSep 13th 2015
The Five-Man Army
There are five men. One of them is a samurai. Another is Captain Oveur from Airplane. What's the vector, victor? Great, great score by Morricone. -
- CommentTimeSep 13th 2015 edited
Space: Above and Beyond - Pilot (1996)
It's a long time since I last saw this. The DVD set consists of double sided DVDs. I almost forgot those things existed. Also I forgot how bad those early analogue-digital transfers looked.
I remember the show was blamed of being a rip off of STARSHIP TROOPERS. (The novel, the film would premier the following year.) I always thought the it had BATTLESTAR GALACTICA written all over it. Even the story of the pilot with as colony destroyed by unsympathetic aliens resembles it.
For a story set in the 2060s technology seems far too advanced whereas on earth the 1990s seemingly just went on forever. So this doesn't make sense to me.
The visual effects are OK but not breathtaking, character development is passable. The score by Shirley Walker is highly effective and a real fine space opera score.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentTimeSep 13th 2015
It was a pretty good show for its time, and I remember being bummed when it was cancelled -- ending on a cliffhanger. The music is fine (and I do have the 3CD set, as it was given to me), but lots of merely perfunctory cues. I've been meaning to offer it as a giveaway at some point.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeSep 14th 2015
It really grew on my over the course of its first and only season. I thought the space effects were spectacular for a TV show at that time, more realistic than whatever came before; certainly one giant step towards the look of BSG. Story and characters were good enough to invest into it, so the unresolved cliffhanger was a real bummer, indeed. -
- CommentTimeSep 14th 2015
Yes, I also think that this show gave some visual inspiration to the re-invisioned BSG. The same goes IMO for the ill fated WING COMMANDER film.Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
Jurassic World
Loved it. Starts off a little shaky, what with the kids and the CGI Park, but soon gets into familiar territory when the new GMO-Rex starts to run amok. And heavens did I love [spoiler]the last scene with the T-Rex, the raptors, GMO-Rex and the Watersaurus. I actually felt sorry for the new baddie, given its backstory. But seeing the T-Rex reign supreme really gained the nostalgia points.[/spoiler]
Dinosaurs rule the earth. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
Not without its flaws, Jurassic World, but a very entertaining ride that seems to know for the most part what people want from a JP flick (which both previous sequels messed up to one degree or another...JP III, this is how you introduce a new major antagonist without shitting all over the true king of all lizards!).
I'm not a huge fan of the Giacchino score, though. Decent thematic material but the action/suspense seemed lackluster to me. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
I will comment tomorrow, when IU' m sobered up. As usual, I disagree with the Stevens.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
Thor wrote
I will comment tomorrow, when IU' m sobered up. As usual, I disagree with the Stevens.
I'm drunk too. So disagree away... bitch. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
Edmund Meinerts wrote
I'm not a huge fan of the Giacchino score, though. Decent thematic material but the action/suspense seemed lackluster to me.
I was actually a little disappointed with the score in the film. Yeah, I love the new major theme he wrote... but the rest was very serviceable. Many of the John Williams parts seemed shoe-horned, despite my arguing against those who said the very same thing. On the album, I love it. In the film...I dunno, didn't seem right?
Whatever. I still love the album, and his new theme remains my favourite cue of this year. I'm sure the King of Kings will change that come December... -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
how can you write so coherentely when you're dunkt?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
I have an enlarged liver. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
indeed. one liver per person, pelase.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
Fuxk off. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
I agree with everything Steven said about Jurassic World, everything!
I saw EVEREST earlier todaty.
The reviews I read have been middling but I really liked it, I do wonder if I've filled in some gaps in the story telling as I know this story so well ( some of you here know that I was at Everest Base camp only four months after events portrayed in the film ), I felt a connection with the characters and loved the accuracy of the geography, everything other than shots on the peak ( never been there ) are absolutely spot on and it was good to know that there was a lot of location filming, so authentic I was right back there in many scenes. I found the final scenes of the film very moving.
I was mostly too engrossed to notice Marianelli's score except for when the group made the summit where the music really stood out, great piece.
p.s. I'm pissed too. Notice I've made no spelling mistakes you bunch of lightweights!On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2015
First episode of the new Dr Who series.
W...w...w..what?
Bloody hell...'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeSep 20th 2015
Martijn wrote
First episode of the new Dr Who series.
W...w...w..what?
Bloody hell...
I was impressed. Great opener [spoiler]and I don't believe either of them are dead.[/spoiler]On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt