Telescopic Evolution
I chose this video because it is one of my favorite conversations from a great movie Waking Life. You must watch this movie if you have not already. The conversation is about the endless possibilities of how we as humans and life in general evolves and what is possible in this universe. I think this movie deals with a similar topic to House of Leaves - What is actually possible in the physical universe we inhabit? Are we actually bound by physics and science, or is our imagination, our minds the only thing that limits us? This is probably my favorite theme of books/movies and the main reason I am enjoying House of Leaves. I do believe in things like timetravel, alternate existences, dreams being the "real" reality, and in general challenging the notion of reality in general. I have also had some crazy dreams since I started reading this book...and waking life is a lot about dreams and lucid dreaming so it all ties in. Here are some more books and movies that deal with this stuff - please help me remember more...
Books : Einstein's Dreams, The Time-traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, The Death of Vishnu
Movies: Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (compare house deteriorating scene to clothes deteriorating in House of Leaves), Contact, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation
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3 comments:
Brilliant. Linklater's one of my favorite directors. Waking Life changed my life.
Also, I'm going to see Kaufman's directorial debut tomorrow, Synecdoche, New York. Check it out if you haven't already... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIizh6nYnTU
after 3 glasses of wine this evening, i had to watch that 8 times. EIGHT. very interesting. even more interesting: my freaked out reaction to the body movement at first... i sat here watching it, then tried to mimic the video... but i guess that wasn't the point of the blog...eh.
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