The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was just mediocre in my opinion. The story had too many tropes and it came off as being sanctimonious. Everything about it was like every other generic hero fantasy story you have ever seen, and with kitsch, over-the-top special effects. Did an AI make this movie to appeal to the masses? It has some meaningless undertones that there is something special, but without validation. It is beyond me why this kind of story keeps getting rehashed. A speculative rabble rousing about the return of a powerful magic thing has been done and redone many, many times in various forms of entertainment for decades with little to no variations. The CGI looks "good" but is too fantastical for any kind of relevance. No matter how flashy it may be, the fact that it comes back around to being boring is a sign that there is something fundamentally lacking.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959)
you have been there
3 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Hiroshima represents for her the recovering from craziness. He is Hiroshima for her and he helps her let go of the attachment to the memory of her lost lover. Impermanence is the fate of all of us. The great tragedy of life is to believe one can defeat reality. Impermanence is reality and trying to go against it is suffering. The couple experienced a moment of pleasure, the happiness of attending closely to another being. But as soon as they wanted to hold to that pleasure suffering began. They fight with the impulse to grasp to each other. At the same time they have a strong desire to let go of each other. They know that if they stay together there will be more suffering than pleasure. They also know that they will suffer the separation. The grand finale is when both have the realization that they will certainly forget each other and be free again from the pain of attachment. In that moment they accept the reality of impermanence and find peace within themselves.
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