Interesting. But I thought the message of Forrest Gump is that being white and a retard is a formula for bliss.
At 11:06 AM 3/28/2010, Paddy Hackett wrote: >I watched the video version of The Curious Case of Benjamin >Button some weeks ago. >As a movie it was moderately entertaining and visually >impressive but certainly not encaptivating. It was of >excessively long duration. However much of it, even allowing >for poetic licence, was implausible. > >Essentially the film is about time. Its key theme is the >ageing process and the way this process is a real concrete >influence on the lives of people. The film draws our >attention to age and the relationship between the different >generations. In this way it somewhat challenges our minds >concerning the matter of age and even ageism. >Notwithstanding the ageism that exists in today's world the >film brings out the hard fact that age does, in a sense, get >in the way. It does this by showing how Benjamin's physical >evolution from a man into a boy and later a baby cannot be a >"proper" father to his child -nor "proper" lover to his >female partner. Again his birth in the form of an old man in >the form of a new born baby obstructs his relationships with >his peer group. The reversal of the aging process in >Benjamin seriously and inevitably influences his >relationships with other people. This is a fact that would >obtain under all social conditions. Indeed there may be an >evolutionary aspect to this matter involving natural >selection. And this is because age matters in the >relationship between individuals from different generations >whether under capitalism or communism. However under >capitalism the age question is more pronounced. And ageism >under capitalism is a real and oppressive issue. > >Other than that there is little more that I can say about >this film. Perhaps the short story, on which the movie is >loosely based, which I have not read is more comprehensive >and interesting. Surprisingly I discovered that at least one >film critic suggested that this movie resembles the Forest >Gump movie --because, while watching it, I had drawn a >similar conclusion. > >Paddy Hackett > http://paddy-hackett.blogspot.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Marxism-Thaxis mailing list >[email protected] >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
