Because I'm completely insane? It's true. You might think Taxi Driver isn't about donuts, but it is. Do you know why? Because I know a lot about donuts. That's why.
Well, that's interesting... (and by interesting I mean complete BS) because I happen to know for a fact that the movie "Taxi Driver" is about a woman who used to rent a room from me who collected Russian nesting dolls and faberge eggs. I know this because of intuition. What intuition has NOT told me is where Martin Scorsese planted the cameras in my house or how he got in here to do it.
shareLol! I was thinking the same thing through the doc, especially that moon-landing guy who claimed the government was after him.
There were definitely some interesting parts (namely the 'backwards and forwards' remake), but so much of it was garbage I feel sorry for the interviewees for acting like such idiots. And did Kubrick really have an IQ of 200? I thought that was some bull___ misconception.
Room 237 is a perfect companion piece to the book "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths" by Dr. Michael Shermer.
sharePerhaps so. But Shermer was not talking about the appreciation of art. You could just as well argue that any act of creative interpretation of art involves looking for patterns and meanings - that does not mean it automatically can be dismissed as conspiracy theory on that basis.
I think if you take the minor references to genuine conspiracy theory content, the moon landing stuff, out of this documentary, what you have is almost entirely legitimate art criticism.