Is There a Movie That Changed Your Life?

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Post by mtmynd » April 30th, 2009, 4:15 pm

okay but just don't try to highjack anymore posts of mine
10-4, amigo. never is one fucking long-assed time, but i have plenty. ;)
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Post by Arcadia » April 30th, 2009, 4:49 pm

all films have changed my life in a (let´s call it) non-fixing way!! :lol: I just saw in Literatura Iberoamericana II today at 2 pm in vhs format in a super overcrowded salón with closed windows (becacause the arts school remodelation) and ventilators (because the extended summer) and with at lot of interruptions presumiblemente because the dirty videocasetera or the age of the tape Paul Leduc´s "Barroco". It was great!, try it, you would probably like it!!! :wink:

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Post by stilltrucking » May 2nd, 2009, 6:36 am

I also think the movies have changed us all. Some of us more permanently than others.

Some memories I have I can't sort out, the real from the reel.
But I am not right. Everybody knows that.

I can think of one that did not change my life, but it did save my life.

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Post by mtmynd » May 2nd, 2009, 10:24 am

I also think the movies have changed us all. Some of us more permanently than others.
I'm still grappling with this topic and getting nowhere. I even asked Soo and Cactus Mary the same question and both them shrugged... could not say any movie that they felt changed their lives. But that NPR interview sure had some folks that were positive movies changed their lives... maybe that's why there's a book... unusual. Heck, I don't know, amigo.

How about music? Music changes people's lives, well some people anyway. So did the automatic clothes washer and drier, but I don't think that would make for an interesting book. How about the internet? Now that has changed the world in ways that we still can't completely comprehend as it just keeps exploding outward like the universe... the universal internet that began with a big bang (?).
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Post by stilltrucking » May 2nd, 2009, 10:36 am

Why grapple with it?

It is not that important.

I can hardly hear music but I have learned a lot from the lyrics.

And when I learn, I think that changes me.

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Post by mtmynd » May 2nd, 2009, 11:56 am

Today, I reached that conclusion - grappling is not the way to find an answer. Indeed, it is not important.. so many other things to dwell upon, so many...

((pssst! hey! do you have hearing difficulties, truck?))
And when I learn, I think that changes me.
That I can fully comprehend... ;)
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Post by stilltrucking » May 2nd, 2009, 2:17 pm

A better would have been the question

"Movies you learned something from that changed your opinon or world view or inspired you a little bit.

enjoy your dwellings amigo

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Post by stilltrucking » May 2nd, 2009, 2:44 pm

I have been dwelling more recently on the docu dramas, movies like JFK, Malcom, and Che. Reluctant to see them.

Unmdiated man.

that is my two bit jargon for today.

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Post by mtmynd » May 2nd, 2009, 4:15 pm

Unmdiated man.

define, please.

how's yr auditorial hearing?
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Post by stilltrucking » May 2nd, 2009, 5:06 pm

1972 college park maryland I had a roommate the phrase is from him, it was from a text book they were using in the honors program in the psych department or maybe it was anthropolgy.

Levi-Straus structuralism are other ghostly terms appear and float above the event horizion of remote consciousness.

I googled it when I thought of it and found a lot of links to new age stuff. spiritualism and such which was not what I thought.
e.g.
http://ecophysics.org/

I think that is the holy grail to live an unmediated life, to live a life of ones own, Joe Campbell said. Or a wheel rolling free out of its own center.

Arcadia I forgot to thank you for your reply.

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Post by e_dog » May 10th, 2009, 9:02 pm

the World isa book-movie.


jus like jack

kerouac
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Post by still.trucking » May 12th, 2009, 12:52 am

Francis Ford Coppola…to direct Kerouac’s “On The Road”
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 26, 2008

http://julian1st.wordpress.com/2008/08/ ... -the-road/


Maybe I just should have asked what is your favorite movie?
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Post by stilltrucking » June 28th, 2009, 5:32 pm

Zeitgeist The Movie,
did that movie change anyone's life-
even a little?

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