Reading Day 5
Astra Taylor, Examined Life, 90' #review
Review by SF
‘The unexamined life is not worth living’, Plato This review is based on all the sentences that popped into my mind whilst watching The Unexamined Life, which is more or less about philosophy and politics. The interviewer/filmmaker is moving from place to place, with the camera, which gives this film a dynamic aesthetic, triggering the viewer to continue watching. Cornel West: Thank God you don’t have to go to school to be a philosopher! It is the lever of wisdom. It takes a lot of discipline and courage. The philosopher tells the truth about things. Cornel gives a personal view on what he thinks the philosopher deals with in everyday life. Avital Ronnel: Boredom has an offshoot of melancholy, which interests me as a response to these dazzling things we are producing. Avital just said what I was thinking about when she started to talk. ‘Boredom’. How something so simple can entail such a large story if we are only philosophical about it. Interviewer: Does life have a meaning, and what is it? This question is something a lot of us deal with at a certain point of our career as artists. But this is also an important question that everyone deals with at a certain point in their lives. I wonder, why is it that creative people have to deal with it the most?
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