In a message dated 10/05/2000 01:33:22, [log in to unmask] writes:
>Well, from hindsight I don't understand it myself why on the occasion
>of teaching philosophy through film a film written by a philosopher
>came to my mind.
>
>Are you one of the pupils of the original poster?
No not at all, I'm simply an observer questioning your response in regards to
the person's question about choice of philosophical films for 14 to 17 year
olds where it seems that the the films chosen by the original poster, apart
from Bladerunner or Matrix, might in the poster's opinion be considered too
esoteric and inaccessible. I'm possibly trying to latch on to you through my
interest in how the thought just popped right in to your head there, in view
of my interest in thought processes. I think that the question describes a
tight situation and the answer that you gave seemed IMHO a little loose,
although I might be missing something, and perhaps trying to make a huge
pyramid of Giza out of a fragment of a segment of a Toblerone bar.
And then, excuse me if I seem a little ignorant on the matter, but I 'm not
familiar with "Les jeux sont faits" having not done a film philosophy class.
Should I find the idea of the film fascinating, I could look into it right
away, in the manner that someone over 30, who likes a lot of the French
movies, might.
But in light of the teacher's situation and concerns, is it accessible to14
to 17 years olds, more so than Bladerunner or Matrix are supposed to be? A
teacher might have got away with it at my school back in the 80's and we
might have spent the following several months wondering what it was we had
seen, but that might have almost been a different world. But if you have
nothing more to say on this matter, there's no problem, we'll leave it at
that.
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