I haven't seen the film (yet); according to the reviews i've seen it isn't worth the price of admission, but I want to know why they have chosen a phrase which is inextricably associated with numerous books of Kurt Vonnegut where he uses it almost as a refrain. It doesn't seem to have any special meaning in relation to this film.
I too do not give a damn.
... Maybe because not everybody associate it with Vonnegut? I didn't, for instance. I actually thought about Billy Joel, and his song And So It Goes.
Billy Joel - And so It Goes - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO6a2H-pqY
Of course, bananas are far more interesting.share
I thought of the Billy Joel song.
Also I thought that it probably sets the tone of the film of accepting the reality of your impending morality, accepting your increasing limitations as your body gets old, etc. At first kinda depressing, but then again you can live out your remaining years with the "screw what anybody else thinks of me!" attitude like Michael Douglas' character seems to do :)
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I thought of Vonnegut......Billy Joel never crossed my mind....I guess it depends on what made the bigger impression
shareI'm going to puzzle most of the people posting here....when I heard the title And So It Goes, I thought of the late, great newscaster Walter Cronkhite. It was his sign-off phrase and referred to life and the news of the day, going on and on. It seemed an appropriate title, to me. If you watch the movie, you may agree. There is no great crisis, just every day ones that are great in the lives of the people they affect. I guess they could have had a tornado hit Little Shangi-la, but that was not the kind of story this was telling. It was a gentle, feel-good (eventually) movie. You knew where it was going, but it was a pleasure getting there.
shareActually, I think Cronkite's catch phrase was, "And that's the way it is."
shareSo because you associate a saying with one person that means no one else is allowed to use it? Who are you to demand this? If you're not even going to watch the movie then why do you even care? It's just a title. Get over it.
The people you idolize wouldn't like you.
Get over it, wow what a mature response. First of all, using the title that is so closely associated with another source be it Vonnegut or Billy Joel just shows how unoriginal the concept is.
Also to the poster above, Walter Cronkite signed off with And thats the way it is... It was another newscaster, Linda Ellerby who ripped off the phrase And so it goes as her sign-off.
You, too, need to get over it. "Ripped off"? No. The OP came to a board for a movie he admittedly hasn't seen and presumably has no interest in simply to name-drop Kurt Vonnegut in an attempt to impress with his "intellect."
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"That's not how I remember it."
Yes, Ellerby did rip the phrase off, even Murphy Brown mentioned that. And besides, the rest of your post Pacificboy, makes absolutely no sense.
shareI stand corrected.
shareI want to know why they have chosen a phrase which is inextricably associated with numerous books of Kurt Vonnegut where he uses it almost as a refrain.
Bbethany7 Slaughterhouse 5 was loaded with this catch-phrase, The book is about the criminal destruction of Dresden at the end of WW2, and a young U.S. soldier's shocked dismay at the carnage. No plausible connection to this movie, and so it goes...
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