Just escape the film - avoid like a bad acid trip
Anyone else agree ?
shareI agree. It would be better use of your time to just go do yard work outside in the hot sun for 1.5 hours. You will get those few obnoxious people to reply that act like they "get" something no one else does. They act like everyone else lacks something they don't.
shareWho says they're acting? Maybe they did just get it.
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The way I can tell they don't get it is because they cannot give an explanation on what the movie signifies, which indicates they don't comprehend it themselves. It seems more like they enjoyed the movie rather than comprehend, which is something entirely different, because enjoyment is based more on preference.
shareNot necessarily. I enjoyed The Place Promised in Our Early Days much more when I comprehended it better.
Enjoyment is based on many things, not just preference.
Now, do you want an explanation for what the viewer who enjoyed it got out of it? Or do you only want an explanation that would satisfy you and only you?
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Plenty of people enjoy something without comprehending its full significance. Many things in life are this way, such as science. Never said enjoyment was ONLY based on preference, its just one of the elements.
I am waiting for any explanation, because since the movie is absolutely dependent on the viewers interpretation it is an indicator that the movie lacks a lot fundamentals, which will leads to too many subjective opinions; not a good thing. Although a movie can be made to be left to the viewers thoughts and ideas, it needs to be done properly, unlike this movie.
Whether it satisfies my understanding of the movie or not should be irrelevant to you. If you feel you comprehend the movie, then by all means explain it.
Yes, people can enjoy things without comprehending them; your argument, however, was they were "acting" because they couldn't explain it to your satisfaction, but I argued they weren't acting and actually got and liked it.
because since the movie is absolutely dependent on the viewers interpretation it is an indicator that the movie lacks a lot fundamentals
False. There's nothing wrong with many different interpretations of the same work.
What I meant about your satisfaction is will you just say, "Nah, I don't agree with that"?
In any case, here goes:
The movie is following a man's emotional, and perhaps mental, breakdown as he takes his family to Disney. It's creating a contrast between what should be an enjoyable experience with the nightmare inside him. He sees things as being horrible representations of what they really are: Disney princesses being fondled, a guy in a wheel chair accosting him, even the cat flu giving him "cat" symptoms (hairballs, cat eyes).
His experience with the robot scientist reflects the big bad corporation's view of us as interchangeable animatronics who pump millions and millions of dollars into its profits.
How much of it actually happened or if it was all in his head is not as relevant as to what the audience experienced.
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That is definitely a good start, because the psychotic breakdown is what I believed for the first half of the movie until the intermission. After that, nothing made sense. Even if anyone could explain the scientist, the cat flu, or why the old princess could put him under a spell with her amulet, there still leaves the fact that when he "died" another of himself walked right in. From my perspective the audience didn't experience much of anything, with the exception of confusion in the end.
My very subjective take on it is that Disney is using his memories as a model system to test "happiness," or to test what will make people not enjoy the park; sort of a simulation. These memories are able to be manipulated in a way to see how this will affect the test subject so that they can be prepared for the real person that is expected to be coming to the Disney park within the next few days. The memories can be implanted into either a robot, or another person of interest, then the experiment is launched and manipulated, then the results are noted. Once the experiment ends, Disney disposes the experiment.
"Plenty of people enjoy something without comprehending its full significance."
^^^ This
Even other movies. "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is one of my favorite movies, although I realize I probably comprehend only 25% of it. I don't think even David Lynch comprehends all of it.