The Illumination

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10/31/2013 Zanussi discusses the meaning of life and its relationship with science and knowledge with a Woody Allen-alike protagonist. Despite the wide acclaim for innovative minds and approaches, I personally feel it a bit pretentious and clichéd. See more 06/03/2013 If you looked (back) at a life from say the end of high school up until age 30 and just tried to capture the "most important" events -- or at least tried to report how these were remembered, even if it was just, you know, a single image or a conversation of 1 or 2 minutes, what would that look like? If you edited these memories together to create a 90 minute film, would it be a coherent narrative? Would it pack an emotional punch? Would it yield "illumination"? Stanislaw Latallo chooses to study physics and subsequently pursues an advanced degree, suspends, works in a mental hospital (with neurosurgical treatments), has romances, gets married, has a kid, returns to his degree (amazingly) and so on. So, this might resonate more if you've considered science (or further study of any kind). Also, if you are ready to engage with a more experimental storytelling style, in Polish (by Zanussi). See more Read all reviews

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