cazba:
I picked up on that it was a comedy immediately. For some reason I just didn't find it funny. The quirky behaviors and the pretentious philosophical statements merely annoyed me even when taken as a joke.
I'm an atheist and my entire life I've questioned most of what was brought up and was supposed to be enlightening/comical. I've come up with these questions entirely on my own volition so seeing them in a movie where they were either supposed to be an epiphany creating statement and/or being made fun of was simply irritating. It was like they were preaching kindergarten based existentialism while I (possibly arrogantly) feel like I'm at least a self-taught sophomore.
I think another problem I had is every character came across as stupid to me. The fact that they needed someone to try and explain incredibly basic concepts to them at the age of 30+ made them unrelatable. Also the teachers came across as stupid as well. Pulling a random line out of my butt: "You can't see electricity can you? You can't see radio waves, but you accept them." Yes you can see electricity, you can make a 10,000v arc pretty easily, hell go look at your grill the next time you ignite it. Also you very much can see radio waves, light itself is a radio wave, our eyes only see a small spectrum of the electromagnetic field, but you can see it.
It was a bunch of ignorant people explaining rudimentary concepts while believing they are being enlightening which makes them incredibly pretentious. Wrapping it up in quirky behaviors to say "it's okay that we did all of this because hey! it's a comedy!"
Would you mind explaining what you found funny?
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