Just finished Woody Allen's brilliant movie: Midnight in Paris... Reliving the greatness of the 20's and interacting with the "lost generation" surreal great artists of humanity through the eyes of today is brilliant. Struggle between love and obligation, dreaming and reality, doing what is passionate and what is right... People look for golden age outside their real themselves...Watching it with Wikipedia on your side for referencing is enlightening experience.
This movie deserves more than a watch. But, at this point, here are some of what I got to reflect on in the future:
- Stein: we all fear death and question our place in the universe, the artist job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.
- Gill: how can anyone come up with a book, or painting, or symphony or sculpture that can compete with a great city... Look around [Paris]... Every street, every boulevard has its special art form. And when you think that in cold violent meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights... Com'n...there is nothing happening on Jupiter or Mars or Neptune, but from way out of space you can see these lights, the cafes, people drinking, singing... I mean for all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the Universe.
- "you inhabit two worlds, so far I see nothing strange"... In the 20's, this is normal. now it is strange!
- "Pablo is the greater artist, but Matese is a greater painter". An interesting distinction between an artist an a painter.
- Everyone consider the other age is the golden age...
- these people don't have antibiotics.
- Writers are full of words but lack emotions.
My favorite new movie. Transformational experience.
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