During the break I watched the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This movie showed existentialism in many ways. McMurphy, a character in the film, showed the patients in the ward how to find their own meaning of life. The patients in the ward start to rebel and have fun and enjoy their life instead of living a strict controlling lifestyle.
McMurphy helped the patients gain freedom and make them want to continue living a free life than a "locked up" life inside the ward. He helped the patients think beyond what they were used to and wanted them to realize they were people and not psycho people.
I also watched the movie The Invention of Lying. The main character in this movie does the unthinkable and abnormal thing to do in society which is to lie. He helped his community by making them think outside the box and stretch their imagination. yes, this created hectic chaos but helped society in a major way. This made the people of society think about what life was like after living.
Both of these films showed existentialism and made people think about the meaning of life. In my opinion I disliked both movies becasue I found them rather boring and useless but they did show meaning and purpose of the existentialism style.
I didn't like the movie either. I hate that it was so so different then the book. I wanted to see the invention of lying a while ago when it came out and i never did. it seems like an interesting movie to watch and that it would be good. i love the existentialist pictures as well.
ReplyDeleteWe watched the same movie and have the same opinions regarding them and how they relate to existentialism. Like you said I understand that it represented exitentialism but I still didn't enjoy the movie that much.
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