The fact that this is not explicitly decided reveals the film's perspective that this doesn't really mater -- perception is the method we use to interact with "reality;" the realizations that Wiley comes to and the knowledge he receives is not mad any less valid or important by the fact that none of the encounters he experiences might actually have happened. The fact that we have such strong intellectual and emotional responses to fictive films is an indicator that perception, to a large degree, creates reality. The nature of truth is also explored in the documentary Standard Operating Procedure. The main philosophical issue in this film is how the framing of an...
It is impossible to fully comprehend, let alone retell, all sides of a given issue. The details focused on by any given framework, then, can have a drastic effect on the truth. In Standard Operating Procedure, both the filmmaker and many of his subjects had to grapple with discovering that issues were not as clear-cut as they had originally been presented. The film explores several theories of truth, most notably and controversially consensus theory, but ultimately rejects these in favor of coherence theory. The situations explored would not be tolerated in our own country; they are incoherent and therefore wrong.
Philosophy -- Film Review Existentialism in Razor's Edge In 1984, Bill Murray starred in the second film adaptation of the novel, The Razor's Edge, written by W. Somerset Maugham in 1944. Murray plays the protagonist, Larry Darrell, who desires one kind of lifestyle at the inception of the film, but goes on a physical and spiritual journey over the film's course. The philosophies of men such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and
Film Analysis from a Design Perspective: Reading Raging Bull Elements of Design The focus of this paper is a pivotal scene from the film Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as real life middleweight boxer, Jake La Motta. Jake's emotional status is reflected in multiple aspects of the film production, such as his physique and costuming, the cinematography, the editing, and the direction. Film communicates the narrative's physical reality and psychological reality with
A lot of this discussion was over my head and I found it boring, but I also was skeptical about some of the ideas, because they were so "out there." They talk about what is real, and what we see vs. what we remember, and I can understand that, but some of the other concepts were just too strange for me, like the atom discussion, and how nothing is
As what Falzon postulated in his article on Descartes and Dualism, the author states that 'the dualist view of human beings means that it is possible for the mind to exist separately from the body (2002, p. 62)' but the persona is still that same person despite residing in another physical being. Thus, John Malkovich's mind may be transferred to Craig's body but then it is the personality of
These blows come in the form of beatings and disappointments encountered by Antoine while he is a student at a prison-like school. Truffaut paints the starkness of his reality effectively in his use of black and white hues. The boys are dressed mainly in dark formal clothes and their surroundings are also dark. This is contrasted with the brightness of the outside world in which Antoine is constantly looking
Philosophy Don't Dream it, Be it: the value of the "unexamined" life. In the story of the Apology, Socrates is put on trial for corrupting the young, something which (according to his testimony) he does by convincing them to examine their life closely and learn to question all their assumptions. In the course of his defense, he makes the oft-repeated claim "...the unexamined life is not worth living..." (Apology) He supports this opinion
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