there must be something that happens everyday of your life worth blogging about
I cramped 2 movies into one night of duty in the comp lab….
1. Truman Show
2. Kiki’s Delivery sevice
Truman is one truly great show, with the exception of jim carrey, i watched it before and this time, its all the more relevant – esp after the art history critic class on matrix, plato's cave – ideas that are especially resonant in truman show – the fact that man has a concious choice to break out of his imagined reality – and success comes thru believe in oneself, and true determination. One cannot even doubt that there is no spoon, but know that there is no spoon.
things i missed in the first viewing – the producer's name is Christof – as in christ of…. not very subtle…. and truman is the one True Man in his constructed reality. The irony of using a godmike to communicate with truman in the end. Man must suffer and undergo test of strength before one can attain true enlightenment…. unlike the matrix – whose true reality is suffering – or plato's cave – whose true reality is a supposed state of blissful enlightenment. we never really got to see how the world outside of truman's world is – an anticlimatic but necessary ending.
Kiki is mizayaki's earlier animation piece, my favourite after watching Spirited Away, Kingdom in Heaven, Howl's moving castle and this is still spirited away. Kiki's storyline is simple and endearing but its doesn't have the fantastical element present in spirited away. As usual, mizayaki hints subtly of darker and graver messages in his storyline. The pursuit of flight by man, the machines that bring about his own demise, flight as a symbol of freedom, unattainable desire, innocence and imagination.
strange coincdence for intertextual reading – watching this randomly picked movie 2 days after reading randomly in the library alfian's poem in history of amnesia – forgot the exact title but it sounds something like “Reasons why man do not have wings” – a beautiful poem. i won't insult the poem by trying to rephrase it here… but its worth checking out.
