lonely, lonely

Shannon 2022-04-20 09:01:52

A lorry is parked on the rails at the property. I didn't realize it was a malfunction when I first watched the movie, and only realized it was to echo the train malfunction at the end when I watched it a second time.
The scene is dominated by icy blues and inky blacks. The camera shows a distant view of the train, which appears dead and frosty. The beginning was completely unaware of the significance of this for the film's tragic narrative climax.


The film raises topics including existence, nothingness, death, alienation, loneliness, boredom, fear, youth, sexuality, flesh, love, emotion, family, cognition, empathy, empathy, shame, space, time, and more.

There are several ways to approach the philosophy of love: bonding mode, caring mode, and dialogue mode.
In the combined mode, love is the undivided attention and ardent gaze upon a single individual, committing almost every aspect of a self to the process.
Mutual recognition of love is also a prerequisite for freedom.
The protagonist looks for it all in the wrong direction:
McKee's characters in the Molecule
film lack dialogue-like love and a relationship of mutual recognition.

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The Ice Storm quotes

  • Ben Hood: Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.

  • Paul Hood: When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world.