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Our Date with Destiny
SIngli6 - wrote on 09/30/22
I loved this film so much I ordered a Criterion Blu-ray copy of it the very night I watched it. It is a sublime work of minimalism and perhaps the most audacious entry into the documentary-hybrid genre I can think of, essentially being an interview in the skin of a drama. I also loved the way Wallace Shawn for so long just echoed Andre's sentiments until he realised the implications of Gregory's philosophy and did a complete 180. That is a pattern of conversation I have often observed in real world discussions of philosophy and theology.
On a personal note, I side more with Shawn's view of the world than Gregory's, but Shawn seemed too deeply motivated by fear in how he came to this view, when really such a view should be the product of considered rumination. One also notes the prescient nature of the film's metaphors, with the image of lobotomised humans in a prison of their own construction presenting uncomfortably close to the CCTV, live-streaming panopticons that are our major cities today.
