When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most ferared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent. - From the movie Slacker.


"do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your
head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you
can trust yourself when all men doubt you"- From Apacalypse Redux

"People are dying Alfred, what would you have me do?
"Endure." - The Dark Knight

I don't know how I never really understood the first quote, but its now quite apparent, sort of like what the quote says itself. WE must either decide to live or decide to die. When in between, we feel the struggles that confront us and can't always find a reason to endure, and that certainly doesn't exactly go away when you decide to live and persevere, but it can somewhat lessen. It can be a feeling that can be controlled, as uncontrollable as we typically feel we are. I think the quote is saying that we constantly live in this battle for an equilibrium that we likely won't attain, but the battle itself encompasses pleasures, passions, and experiences that don't even have to be sexual to be enjoyable. And I think thats what makes love so worth living for, the fact that sex isn't the only aspect of it, but its still a comfort and relief in knowing you're loved. I could get more psychological than that, but for the most part, that is what makes love what we seek so obsessively. And that is also why I hate to hear people really slandering people who get attached. I mean, its natural to get attached and to believe in another person so that they will give you soemthing you really want, so why the fuck are they the absurd and weird? have we really gotten to the point that we're only willign to accept the part of our nature that keeps us from thinking of the future at all?

Onwards; the second quote, I think, is an example of brilliant writing. In addition to that, its a fucking brilliantly truthful statement. I had a discussion with someone about how much good and bad comes from our imagination. Suffice it to say, our imagination, our contemplation of what could be, our wondering 'if' something could be is what has brought us this far. A shame its also what slows our progress.

Lastly, the last quote is mostly support for the first quote. I think its ludicrious how differently people think movies are, and look for no congruity between their favorites or even ones they passively view. Batman was definitely more than a superhero flick, and I think that a lame ass movie like Avatar reveals that people want truth and they want understanding to be displayed in art. Its just a shame that it has to be oversimplified and full of special effects for the truth to be appreciated.

That said, A Serious Man is the greatest fucking movie of all time. I bet NO ONE saw that coming.

Yea, mazel tov!