Oh, and I don't think one has to know anything abo...

2008-11-23T18:06:00.000+11:00

Oh, and I don't think one has to know anything about the Upanishads to appreciate this film.

I saw Youth Without Youth today and had a complete...

2008-11-23T18:05:00.000+11:00

I saw Youth Without Youth today and had a completely different response. I can, however, understand yours. I think mainstream audiences would find it "opaque", maybe even non-mainstream audiences. It has much in common with Aronofsky's films, such as Pi and The Fountain, with its themes of time travel, fountain of youth, reincarnation, eternal love, and Lynch's Lost Highway with it's playing with identity.

The film is not meant to be intellectually understood per se, but rather appreciated on an intuitive level. It leaves itself open to interpretation, with no neat explanations or resolutions. I liked it alot: the characters, the visuals (simply stunning), and the sense of exploration of the big themes (Life, the Universe and Everything), and the sense of mystery the pervades from start to finish.

It's definitely worth seeing, (1) as the work of a master, and (2) as something that is cinematically risky, challenging and outside the square. Serious cinephiles should go and support this film.

It looks and sounds great. I love ambitious attem...

2008-11-09T08:56:00.000+11:00

It looks and sounds great. I love ambitious attempts, even if they don't wholly succeed. And while I can't quote from the Upanishads, I do have a pretty good understanding of their basic content. Maybe I'll extract something from the film, Matt, that you didn't.

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Oh, and I don't think one has to know anything abo...

I saw Youth Without Youth today and had a complete...

It looks and sounds great. I love ambitious attem...