everything is just like anything else? i don't get it. some sort of Nihilism thing or am i missing something?
12yrs the ache is still fresh like a rawangrynerve This isnt about healing Im not lookin forclosure
Everything is just like anything else. Yup, that about sums it up.
share> some sort of Nihilism thing or am i missing something?
Yeah, basically that's it. Some kind of Nihilism. There is no God, life is meaningless, and screwing women (or logically, even screwing children) might as well be your religion. And when you are through with them, or they are through with you, you may shoot them or don't shoot them, shoot yourself or don't shoot yourself; or just dump and discard them ... or not ... or move to California or don't move to California. Have sex with seven year old girls or don't have sex with seven year old girls. Murder cops or don't murder cops. And it does not really matter because it is just like anything else.
The psychiatrist who tells him to get rid of the gun symbolizes a God that does not exist. So now he has a gun, and whether or not he uses it (and for what purpose) is entirely up to him. Good thing Falk is such a "nice guy" (in his own mind) who does not happen to feel like shooting anyone at precisely this moment.
The Danny DeVito character represents the idea that the human beings in one's life are expendable, to be dumped and brushed aside when no longer useful, and moral considerations of loyalty and concern for others need not dissuade you. Of course, this moral is meant to be applied to women as well, but Danny DeVito is used to illustrate the idea to make the concept more palatable to the emotions and vestigal moral sensibilities of the jaded audience. As applied to women, Woody effectively dodges this implications of this moral by (a) making the woman in question so unlikeable; and (b) making things basically work out for her anyway.
If it doesn't matter, then why was it so important for him to move to California and cut ties with the people he knew in New York?
If you killed someone you would have to face the possibility of being arrested. I think being nihilistic doesn't mean you can act irresponsibly, because you would be forced to lived in not so ideal conditions.
Not believing in anything doesn't mean doing random things, you still have to put some effort into making your life more tolerable. Maybe a lot of effort... Unless you commit suicide you can't avoid being alive, you just try to do it with as little suffering as possible.
Maybe if we didn't have rules and penalties there would be more of the actions you described, as it is, I don't think so.
1. Don`t cast Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci as two New York sophistoes. 2. Don`t have Biggs fourth-wall-breakingly speak into the camera. These two things made the film quite a struggle to sit through.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I understand that it's saying most things are subjective.
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