where to go

Kiley 2022-09-28 09:03:23

If life is just endless absurdity, you will never be responsible for the mistakes you make, but you will eventually pay for the mistakes of others.

If life is just a never-ending emptiness, a wife cheating, getting arrested, suicide can't shake your expressionless face.

So, where should we go?

The Coen Brothers' film "The Absentee" is icy alienation to despair.

ED says that our lives are like a maze, and at every turn, we are forced to turn, and we end up in a dead end.

Is that right? So he was never silent, so he never mattered.

So, after opening that door, his dreams and future are just absurd - an alien involved in murder, a female liar who claims to be a psychic.

But there is nothing we can do to stop the passion of life, right? Just like there is no way we can stop our hair from growing, there is no way we can even die.

So he used the 10,000 yuan extorted to join that whimsical plan; therefore, he fulfilled the passion in his heart through the lives of others. So, the room that would eventually lead him to death was as white and bright as heaven.

But the ending is still the endless absurdity and emptiness.

Then, the ED said, these cut hairs, can I, take them back and bury them in the soil?

Is this, a memorial or a memory?

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The Man Who Wasn't There quotes

  • Frank: Did you pump it? You can't pump it. That'll just flood it.

    Customer: Ya gotta pump it. Ya can't just hold it down. *That'll* flood it.

    Frank: You crazy? You pumped it?

    Customer: Well, ya can't hold it down.

    Frank: Just turn the key.

    Customer: Not when it's cold.

    Frank: Well, if it's cold, choke it.

    Customer: And pump it.

  • [after telling Crane his wife has been arrested]

    Officer Persky: Crap detail...