Dan. I will ramble
Where to begin. Twelve hours after seeing the film. Facticity (the
overwhelming immersion in the life of suburban America shrouds (conceals)
Mr O Brien's capacity to examine his own being. Rootedness (again O Brien's
fascination with his vegetable garden, tree planting, digging, gardening
cultivating) Dwelling ( the role of the Obrien household as it cultivates
character, and the haunting look it 'gives' them as they leave Waco.
Gestell. Again Obrien becomes a pawn for industry as he resolutely tries to
'make it' , only to realize that it has cost him and his family.
Then there is the nature of memory and the relationship of the camera to
being and to time. The camera moves and sways trying to penetrate moments,
but it is as if these moments can be phenomenologically revealed for us by
the camera, only to be concealed again. This is Heidegger's ecstatic time, a
temporality of layers. For me here is where the film opens into the world of
cosmology. That being opens itself into the eternal cosmos, that which
Dasein tries valiantly to transcend. I'm still trying to marry the dinosaur
scenes.
I don't know too much about Heidegger as some in this forum do, but the film
seems to be open to such interpretation.
Regards
Russell
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