Monday 18 February 2013

13 Conversations About One Thing
(2001)

RATING:40%
FORMAT:DVD



Ostensibly about Happiness, but really detailing its widespread absence from Western culture.

The characters are volitionally self-pitying & unlovable; choosing to scapegoat others: They are addicted to their problems in the vain hope of escaping affectless existences.

The movie cannot demonstrate if happiness exists nor does it make a clear distinction between the luck you make yourself and that with which you are born.

A self-obsessive other-fixation explains unhappiness here and few possess the courage to see this or to want to have good working-relationships with themselves.

There is no appreciation in this movie that Whites tend to worry-themselves-miserable about happiness, as no other culture does.

A dishonestly-solipsistic movie (such narcissism being a major source of unhappiness, to begin with), such that the authors of this tract write about a subject they know as little about as do their fictitious characters.


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