the thing with these films, even the ones with great dialogue and characters, like “her” – the thing is that they’re all inevitably coming from some or other vantage point of what’s good and not and what’s worthwhile and not – i mean they’re easy to spot, the values being propagated, the american stuff like: “it’s good to express yr emotions, to have adventures, excitement is good, so is spontaneity and sharing and talking a lot and saying everything you want to say and getting everything you want” and so on and so forth – that whole package of things of what’s a good way to behave…and in terms of the larger perspective it seems really shallow and superficial and almost arbitrarily silly…i mean in the context of samsara and ultimate values and what the mind is capable if…to be stuck here plugged into this…for how much longer can i keep it up? the pretence that this is important…maybe the nausea is growing for these ideals…
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