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Thank you, so kind of you. This was like a stream of consciousness. So invigorating and powerful writing it, wow, of course it's not about any of these films, I'm sharing things that can help people to bring more health to themselves. Our tastes are often related to health of the body, not always though. It is the same why many people grow out of relating to comic books and start watching things that entertain only their intellect, not their imagination.
I think you're close to getting it. People generally have no problem with it when it's said in that way, especially women! It's not what is said, it's about how it's said and for what purpose, it's always hilarious.
wow now that is a sick mind, and for your information people can see that the only troll here is you, I was just sharing my viewpoint, and you are trolling ME, you seem to have a problem yourself. Again, that is not what I have said, that is your own interpretation in your own sick mind, as if it was not obvious from the very beginning. If I said something like that my girlfriend would certainly find it distasetful. You're completely clueless. Ironic thing is that most people find it absolutely normal in what is in the film and what I used to say to uplift the spirit, only someone who is genuinely sick sees the opposite. They do have a problem, a big problem!
I love children very very much, there's never too much. It is only you, no one else, who says that I want to rip a child's clothes off while having sex. Why is that? Feelng guilty of doing this yourself?
I love children, I love adults, I love everyone and everything.
It is comforting when people can learn their own way, including also seeing it like me not wanting to rip the clothes off from children when having sex with their girlfriends. You may have not understood anything what I've been saying, but I love you the way you are anyway.
Whatever, as long as my sharing helps people to truly heal their lives and heart and expand their awareness and reach their essence. Thank you for an important conversation. This was very enlightening.
You're not for real. lol
Yes of course. People who have no demons in their hearts understand it I guess. Therapeutic self healing of our mind, body and soul helps us to empty our mind, and stop assuming.
Wow now that is creepy that you think so, I said it too when I was horny, so what. Where this world is coming to. No sex has nothing to do with it, AT ALL. There's many guys who can speak like this even today, especially drunk. The idea is that when you're already in the act of undressing, undress the whole world, everyone, it's silly, but funny at the same time. Are people able to lighten up. Stop self projecting your fears. This film is far more innocent than some people who project themselves onto it like this.
One has to have a quite dark mind to assume there is anything sexual about ripping Lyndey's clothes off, it is a beautiful idea in a way, it's about freedom being naked. This is what happens when perverted minds self project themselves on the outside stimuli. I used to say it once myself couple years back in the same way that involved 7 year old kid, and it's normal, if you are normal, or at least crazy in a beatiful free way. Learn how some hippies usually talk or act. Theres nothing wrong with being naked. This is what happens when people take everything seriously, especially these days. Ahh golden 70's full of open minded free people, the time when guys were not afraid to hug each other for thinking they'll be seen as gay. That started happening later on, because people are plaqued by corupted mind and assumptions based on fears they grew up with.
01. Ghosts Of Mars (10/10)
02. Halloween (10/10)
03. Starman (9.5/10)
04. Escape From LA (9.5/10)
05. The Fog (9.5/10)
06. Village Of The Damned (9/10)
07. Vampires (9/10)
08. The Thing (8.5/10)
09. Prince Of Darkness (8.5/10)
10. They Live (8.5/10)
11. Escape From New York (8.5/10)
12. Big Trouble In Little China (8.5/10)
13. Dark Star (8/10)
14. The Ward (8/10)
15. In The Mouth Of Madness (8/10)
16. Assault On Precinct 13 (8/10)
17. Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (7.5/10)
18. Christine (7.5/10)
The fan since the early 1980's. Halloween and Ghosts Of Mars were for me always his only real masterpieces and artistic triumphs in his career.
No I've not read any review of that film from Ebert. That's just my own impression of the film, I never saw it as a horror film, at least for an hour into the film. I see your point. I think gore, just like CGI or anything that can numb senses quickly is rarely used by directors sparingly in order to make an impact.
No not at all, Psycho was something new, it was bound to shock the audience, it had the kind of shock quite unimaginable for many people today, todays'blood and gore is not shocking, it is usually the exact opposite. What was shocking about Halloween in 1978 was the lack of blood, its whole approach was about hiding as much in the shadows, the whole film was like a virus sneaking underneath your skin pretending it is a vitamin D, completely disturbing, and without any blood, its shocks were from the story, shocking was seeing dead Annie on the bed with the tombstone above her head for instance. That kind of a film makes you distrust the flow of the film, leaving you unsettled because you never know what it is capable of doing to you, in a way the film even felt like it was more of a thriller than a horror anyway. Psycho actually was shocking exactly because of this approach too, its violence was shocking because it was unexpected in a film that felt like a mild drama or thriller for most of the film. Many new films today are too loud, explicit, showing too much, and leaving little to an imagination. Gore itself is not an issue, it has just become a reflection of how directors want to scare you, graphic violence is not shocking if there's too much of it anyway, it makes you numb.
I might see this film one day, the fact the critics themselves like it so much pulls me away from this already, first Halloween did not have exactly good critics initially, it was breaking a new ground, and critics were not ready for it at that time, it did something new. What this new one seems to do from what I hear is to repeat what has already been done, nothing new, no breaking of trends, hence why critics usually have no problem with it. If it's something innovative and new, and critics love it, their response is a little bit different, they sort of start saying something like it's a new Psycho, oh well that was actually what some of them even said later on back in 78.
I have not seen this new film yet, but do you think this film lacks the subtlety of the original? Just guessing already. And also is it bloodless like the original?
I have feeling like a lot of films like this think blood is necessary so it would be realistic, not realizing that realism comes from the choice of focus and grounded point of view, the human eye does not see everything either, even in war zones soldiers try to look away. So much impact can be lost when violence becomes grotesque. The old saying comes to mind that what we don't see gives more to imagination than what is exposed. I'm just curious about this new film if it's daring to change these trends.
There might be more to that, it is deeply related to arrogance of an ego, a complete disconnection from the feeling and sensitivity of the body itself, from any subtlety of the touch of hands. Try to numb your senses as much as possible, some of your first reactions are going to be laughter or apathy even to naturally shocking things happening in life, not just in film. Numbing senses can come from eating too much heavy food, alcohol, drugs, anything toxic including bad air that is killing your cells in the body. There is a reason why it is usually older people who laugh, and why little kids would be scared to death. It's a matter of sensitivity of the body itself. Cleansing our body completely changes our reactions, to the point of seeing ghosts and spirits around us. When I was fasting on water for 40 days or dry fasting for 12 days I couldn't watch any horror film, even the terrifying sound was pushing me to a state of shock, our senses have an ability to be extremely sharp. A film like Halloween could even kill us if there was no protection to the energy coming at us, and it doesn't matter that we know it is just a film, try to say that to a 5 year old child, it's a matter of palpable energy affecting our electromagnetic field of an inner body, mental, emotional and spiritual. Many people's senses are almost completely dead though, so they may not even have a capacity to comprehend what I am saying.
Because he represents what people fear the most, it is ironic when we look into our deeper fears, people are afraid of the unknown in others, emotion-less and feature-less, and silence and darkness of the mind. All the other villains have at least some kind of a face expression. It is an ultimate fear to an ego. This fear and such villains would have never existed in the real world if people reversed that and embraced the unknown and the darkness in themselves and other people. It's all about self projection, and Halloween is perfect by feeding that same emotion most of us carry inside.