"PHILOSOPHICAL FILMS"

seribulan · Post time 22-4-2006 06:07 PM

Selected films and their corresponding texts:

"Modern Times" (Charles Chaplin)--Marx: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
"Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles)--Xenophon: Memorabilia; Plato: Apology
"Apocalypse Now" (Coppola)--Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
"Nine1/2 Weeks"(Adrian Lyne)--De Beauvoir: The Second Sex
"The General" (Buster Keaton)--Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"Duck Soup" (Marx Brothers)--Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"She's Gotta Have It" (Spike Lee)--Kant: What is Enlightenment?
"Play It Again, Sam" (Woody Allen)--Emerson: Self-Reliance
"Husbands and Wives" (Woody Allen)--Sartre: The Emotions
"Educating Rita" (Lewis Gilbert)--J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism
"Network" (Sidney Lumet)--Plato: The Republic
"Last Year at Marienbad" (Alain Resnais)--Descartes: Meditations
"Koyaanisqatsi" (Godfrey Reggio)--Fichte: The Vocation of the Scholar
"What Dreams May Come"--Wittgenstein: "Lecture on Ethics"
"A Heart in Winter" (Claude Sautet)--Plato: Symposium

*By clicking on the linked film titles in the address given below you will find relevant philosophical texts, notes, or references.

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/forum15.htm

ps. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY ONE OF YOURS OR MORE?

Show all posts · Post time 2-2-2007 11:15 AM

quotes dalam Pulp Fiction pun ada yang buat kita berfikir sejenak.

seribulan · Post time 11-2-2007 04:36 PM

post the quotes here?

cinta_ungu · Post time 12-2-2007 01:25 AM

Originally posted by seribulan at 22-4-2006 06:07 PM
Selected films and their corresponding texts:

"Modern Times" (Charles Chaplin)--Marx: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
"Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles)--Xenop ...

tak pernah tgk satu pun citer2 yg dinyatakan kat atas tue..
ade lagi ke ditayangkan skang cite2 nie..??

seribulan · Post time 12-2-2007 02:17 PM

mostly classics...kalau di Penang, kat area SuperKomtar...
tingkat satu dier dulu ada kedai yg jual filem klasik ni...

mungkin ada yg nak taruh filem moden plak...

Agul · Post time 19-2-2007 09:23 PM

Komtar dah jadi superkomtar?

Ada tak pengkelasan tentang jenis2 "philosophical films"... The general idea or underlying theme...

I'm not that open minded... Need to be selective...

seribulan · Post time 20-2-2007 09:25 AM

Originally posted by Agul at 19-2-2007 09:23 PM
Komtar dah jadi superkomtar?

Ada tak pengkelasan tentang jenis2 "philosophical films"... The general idea or underlying theme...

I'm not that open minded... Need to be selective...

Duh, silap...patutnya Komtar...SuperKomtar pon dah tutup kedai...

What do you mean 'I'm not that open minded... Need to be selective... '?

Agul · Post time 20-2-2007 02:42 PM

I believe that no one is open minded. Except only certain few. Their number in Malaysia will be countable by our hand (just the right hand, not a pair of hand), if they even exist in such a small country as Malaysia.

Most people mistakenly believe that they are open minded when in reality, they only believe what's comfortable with them. When new ideas surfaced into their life, they will experience cognitive dissonance and in the extreme cases, attack the ideas vehemently.

But that is ok.

With all the thing, the negativity around us today, we must select what to feed our mind with. Because if you're like most people (me included) anything around us will influence us to a lesser or greater extent. The same like you choose what to eat, what's good for your body.

Or maybe we're invincible from all this, all the influence from the environment, just like the chronic smoker who think that smoking will never harm him...

That's why I choose not to be open minded. Only open minded to certain things...

maybe this definition of open mind is a bit different from what most people usually associate...

seribulan · Post time 23-2-2007 09:33 AM

Originally posted by Agul at 20-2-2007 02:42 PM
With all the thing, the negativity around us today, we must select what to feed our mind with. Because if you're like most people (me included) anything around us will influence us to a lesser or greater extent.

A filter. You can stop development, but you can work with the development...don't let it work at you...
easy said than done...

Agul · Post time 26-2-2007 12:02 AM

Originally posted by seribulan at 23-2-2007 09:33 AM

A filter. You can stop development, but you can work with the development...don't let it work at you...
easy said than done...

I've come to believe that an awful lot of what most people call wisdom is simply NOT any kind of "wisdom" I want to take on...

Thsi goes for "philosophical wisdom" too...

So I choose...