The rich also cry
It seems that Oscar Wilde also advised humanity to be mindful with their desires - otherwise they'll suddenly come true. The fashionable modern philosopher Slavoj ižek told a comparable by the example of this very picture. Yes, nothing is new under the moon and everything that modern sages say has been said quite a long time ago and better.
The hero of the “Second”, as usual, didn't heed the advice and therefore the picture proved to be extremely sad. The expression on the facial skin of a tired elderly man who has chose to undergo surgery is merely depressing: this is an expression of mortal melancholy and complete resignation to fate. Given that he is just a successful banker and a "happy" family man. What else does a person need? It's just that personality change services are extremely expensive, so only very rich people are able to afford them. So the whole middle income was left entirely behind, and the writers fell to their own trap. It seems that I genuinely wish to empathize with the type, but it's not entirely clear - to empathize using what exactly.
The grape orgy of "reborn" characters in the middle of the film is much like a hippie party. That is not surprising, because "The Second" was filmed in the sixties. Wikipedia says that the beginning of the hippie movement is recognized as 1965, but the very first swallows, obviously, flew across America before, and so the "Second" just found myself in the stream. True, this did not help the film and previously very few people appreciated it. But, with time, the picture gave rise to such a small cult.
Formally, it is very interesting and even experimental in places, especially in the initial half, but it generally does not represent an impeccably integral work, breaking up into several parts, which differ markedly in stylistic and mood. Dialogues tend to be rather unassuming and dramatic collisions are simplified to please saifay, which does not require Dostoyev's nuances and Tolstoy's depths. The brand new life of the protagonist is shown in just several scenes. But “The Second” is still worth considering as an unusual cinephilic experiment with form and as a painting with a sizable, though not fully realized, plot potential. https://myspace.com/cribdust46 The film echoes such works as Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller, Coma by Michael Crichton, Steppenwolf by Hesse (and, to a smaller extent, his strange film adaptation) and even Thirteen by Gela Babluani. Someone has noticed the influence of the painting on David Lynch. If the aforementioned works and personalities are of interest for your requirements, then "The Second" is certainly worth watching.
Within our paranoid time, this unusual film, like its hero, also deserves a second life. I have without doubt at all that eventually a remake awaits us, which, I really hope, will not vulgarize the original, very humanistic and quite touching idea.
However the fatal impossibility to alter life without changing anything essentially is, as we say, the philosophical side of the matter. There is no time for philosophical maxims in the job of the anonymous office, which turns over big money. Therefore, there is a certain fraud mechanism in the technology of selling an alternative solution dream. Giving the client a choice: to become, as an example, a tennis player or an artist, Arthur is presented with evidence from the realm of the unconscious. Allegedly, being in circumstances of hypnosis, he let slip his intention to become an artist. At the same time, much earlier, on the first visit to work, Arthur was asked to recognize himself as Wilson. movie review There's undoubtedly that the artist Wilson is just a vacancy that the client receives without the alternative. Thus, replacing the scenery or even the body is a distraction from the main swindle: selling someone else's dream. As Deleuze says, if you learn yourself in the dream of another, you then got fucked.
It's on this vparivanie customers other people's desires (usually owned by advertisers, ideologists, "opinion leaders", etc.) built the functioning of the customer society, and as its metaphors - the Kafkaesque office selling used bodies. The obverse and reverse of a falsified choice (banker / artist) are equally hopeless attempts to escape from the inescapable frustration or depression of the topic of the buyer society. Meanwhile, depression, which young adults also suffer massively, is really a real disease of our century, caused by a systemic failure of value coordinates. When what you have always strived for (career, wealth, millions of "likes", etc.) works out to become a dummy, you are overtaken by the ninth wave of neuroses and frustrations. When, in the general race for success, at the initial stages of "step-by-step self-realization" there is no time for reflection, the situation is tolerable. But also for Arthur from The Secondaries, concentrating on his thoughts and feelings is disastrous, while he perfectly understands he is living someone else's life. The Dow Jones index may rise or fall, quarterly indicators might be ahead or lagged behind the planned ones, but being in the role of just one and a zero, as a “man-hour” or “individual” is without question humiliating.
The hero of the “Second”, as usual, didn't heed the advice and therefore the picture proved to be extremely sad. The expression on the facial skin of a tired elderly man who has chose to undergo surgery is merely depressing: this is an expression of mortal melancholy and complete resignation to fate. Given that he is just a successful banker and a "happy" family man. What else does a person need? It's just that personality change services are extremely expensive, so only very rich people are able to afford them. So the whole middle income was left entirely behind, and the writers fell to their own trap. It seems that I genuinely wish to empathize with the type, but it's not entirely clear - to empathize using what exactly.
The grape orgy of "reborn" characters in the middle of the film is much like a hippie party. That is not surprising, because "The Second" was filmed in the sixties. Wikipedia says that the beginning of the hippie movement is recognized as 1965, but the very first swallows, obviously, flew across America before, and so the "Second" just found myself in the stream. True, this did not help the film and previously very few people appreciated it. But, with time, the picture gave rise to such a small cult.
Formally, it is very interesting and even experimental in places, especially in the initial half, but it generally does not represent an impeccably integral work, breaking up into several parts, which differ markedly in stylistic and mood. Dialogues tend to be rather unassuming and dramatic collisions are simplified to please saifay, which does not require Dostoyev's nuances and Tolstoy's depths. The brand new life of the protagonist is shown in just several scenes. But “The Second” is still worth considering as an unusual cinephilic experiment with form and as a painting with a sizable, though not fully realized, plot potential. https://myspace.com/cribdust46 The film echoes such works as Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller, Coma by Michael Crichton, Steppenwolf by Hesse (and, to a smaller extent, his strange film adaptation) and even Thirteen by Gela Babluani. Someone has noticed the influence of the painting on David Lynch. If the aforementioned works and personalities are of interest for your requirements, then "The Second" is certainly worth watching.
Within our paranoid time, this unusual film, like its hero, also deserves a second life. I have without doubt at all that eventually a remake awaits us, which, I really hope, will not vulgarize the original, very humanistic and quite touching idea.
However the fatal impossibility to alter life without changing anything essentially is, as we say, the philosophical side of the matter. There is no time for philosophical maxims in the job of the anonymous office, which turns over big money. Therefore, there is a certain fraud mechanism in the technology of selling an alternative solution dream. Giving the client a choice: to become, as an example, a tennis player or an artist, Arthur is presented with evidence from the realm of the unconscious. Allegedly, being in circumstances of hypnosis, he let slip his intention to become an artist. At the same time, much earlier, on the first visit to work, Arthur was asked to recognize himself as Wilson. movie review There's undoubtedly that the artist Wilson is just a vacancy that the client receives without the alternative. Thus, replacing the scenery or even the body is a distraction from the main swindle: selling someone else's dream. As Deleuze says, if you learn yourself in the dream of another, you then got fucked.
It's on this vparivanie customers other people's desires (usually owned by advertisers, ideologists, "opinion leaders", etc.) built the functioning of the customer society, and as its metaphors - the Kafkaesque office selling used bodies. The obverse and reverse of a falsified choice (banker / artist) are equally hopeless attempts to escape from the inescapable frustration or depression of the topic of the buyer society. Meanwhile, depression, which young adults also suffer massively, is really a real disease of our century, caused by a systemic failure of value coordinates. When what you have always strived for (career, wealth, millions of "likes", etc.) works out to become a dummy, you are overtaken by the ninth wave of neuroses and frustrations. When, in the general race for success, at the initial stages of "step-by-step self-realization" there is no time for reflection, the situation is tolerable. But also for Arthur from The Secondaries, concentrating on his thoughts and feelings is disastrous, while he perfectly understands he is living someone else's life. The Dow Jones index may rise or fall, quarterly indicators might be ahead or lagged behind the planned ones, but being in the role of just one and a zero, as a “man-hour” or “individual” is without question humiliating.
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