Red Moon Tide (2020)
10/10
A meditative, existential, waking nightmare
26 March 2023
Philosophy:

Red Moon Tide is a meditative existential waking nightmare. It calls upon the meditation of existence, morality, and reason. Through single frames it covers the universal singularity. Calamity, loneliness, and despair... all on full display. It's most frightening aspect is what the film questions and doesn't resolve.

The open void of existence, and its apparent senselessness. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives.

There is no thought without reason, no morality without truth. No clear understanding of what nothingness equates to, (aka the voided vaccume of space and time). What's beyond, if there's a beyond? It's relativity, and simultaneous ambiguity, puts reality into question.

The film mocks reality, and confronts it's meaninglessness. Call it, terrifying, and staggeringly beautiful.

This film will haunt you. With the truth that there is no truth. To reject all beliefs is in fact a belief. Summarized by the fact that we are the joke... don't laugh. That is the paradox.. you must confront.

Logic dictates that life is simultaneously meaningless and meaningful at the same time. You cannot accept one without accepting the other. If life's only meaning is that it's meaningless. Is that still meaningful? ... Meaningless cannot be identified without indirectly giving it meaning. That is why everything is interconnected. It's our brain and the illusion of self - that creates, separation.

Thought, idea, atoms, life itself. Randomness, order, morality, reason, despair. Truth, objectivity, subjectivity... thought.. an idea.. ... bigger than life itself. A universal singularity represented in single frames, a meditative waking nightmare.. a Red Moon Tide...Art? An idea... Call it Bigger than... life itself.
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