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posted 10 years ago by therefdotcom
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i might be wrong, but the plot reads as if this agonozingly ridiculous.

what's more important, words or pictures? WTF????????

"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh

[–] aliza_tvito 10 years ago

You're not wrong. The plot was agonizingly ridiculous, the acting was false, and the Pictures, mercilessly forced on us to see, had nothing in common with Art.

The protagonist recites Shakespeare (Words), his opponent displays her enormous soiled canvases (Pictures) - in that case, Words are definitely victorious (+ babble, babble, babble...)

Ridiculous.

Listen to your enemy, for God is talking

[–] therefdotcom 10 years ago

thank you very much. that is EXACTLY how i imagined the actual film would be like.

"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh

[–] Milkdoesabodygood 10 years ago

"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh. ^^^^^^^^^^ thank U for the thought provoking quote, in life nobody knows your pain, nobody except the man upstairs.

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[–] BB-15 10 years ago

The plot is about two teachers who push their students hard and in the process ask philosophical questions.
- Do teachers like this exist in our world? Yes.

"i might be wrong, but the plot reads as if this agonozingly ridiculous.

what's more important, words or pictures? WTF????????

You are not wrong in this sense.
The average person is not a teacher or a professor.
The average person is not a painter who has exhibited their work.
The average person is not a published author.
* The characters in this film are at a different level from the average person.

I have been in classes like the ones shown in the film where the professor was asking questions that were beyond what the students could handle.
It can happen.
But I'm sure the students thought that the professor was being ridiculous.

BB ;-)

it's just in my opinion - imo -

[–] aliza_tvito 10 years ago

** The characters in this film are at a different level from the average person. **

It's just in my opinion, BUT: there weren't any characters in the film. If we do accept these *IMO* ghosts as a characters, their level is miserable.

Listen to your enemy, for God is talking

[–] fatpie42 10 years ago

Perhaps they should have had YOU write the synopsis. Since far from arguing that the synopsis ISN'T ludicrous, you've provided us with a more sensible synopsis instead.

The synopsis does not say that this film is about two teachers from different fields (English and Art) pushing their students to greater philosophical depths and challenging them like never before, with the centrepoint being whether words or pictures are better.

It says that two RIVAL teachers start a competition where the students must decide which is better. (Which implies that their students are going to decide for them whether English or Art is better.) But in Art classes, words are still important and in fact in English classes pictures can still play an important part. Asking which is better, far from sounding philosophical, sounds absurdly trivial.

But I'm just looking at the synopsis here, of course.

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[–] hoyo-mont 10 years ago

Ridiculous plot, ridiculous film.

Compare it with a truly ridiculous film, one that made millions of dollars: I remember going to see one of those Star Wars prequels, I forget which one. Every instance of human interaction in the film felt so bogus that the audience was snickering. I couldn't believe it was released this way. And the plot? Couldn't tell you a thing about them. I can't remember anything else, except for a Yoda action scene.

Words and Pictures does have a stupid premise, but at least I fully understood the premise and could follow the story. And what was good is that most of the human interaction in the film (100% of the film) shows exactly how people should act and be directed.

[–] rc-108 9 years ago

not the greatest premise...
but very well done...

well worth the watch.

Owen and Binoche are fantastic...
I truly believed them in their roles.

[–] monstermayhem32 9 years ago

The film was a little dull at times but Clive and Juliette were good.

[–] anabanana15 9 years ago

well they're both educated people, so the question shouldn't be what's more important coz that's really stupid, but in the end it was more about the characters and how they deal with each other, and that kind of mirrors the relationship between pictures and words, which is really complicated just like human relationships.