Think
A program for reading, watching, and discussing literature and film together.
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A rich banker and a young lawyer make a stupid argument. Then they turn it into a bet. Fifteen years of isolation. Books, silence, pride, money, boredom, philosophy, rage, religion, literature, and the slow question of whether a person can read enough, think enough, suffer enough, and finally stop wanting what the world keeps selling.
Some movies are about war. Apocalypse Now feels more like war having a fever dream about itself. It is huge, beautiful, obscene, hypnotic, ridiculous, and rotten in a way that still makes most modern war movies look too clean. This is not just a Vietnam film.
A lot of sci-fi ages into nostalgia. The Matrix aged into an accusation. Yes, it still has the coats, the bullet time, the sunglasses, the style. But what keeps it alive is the uglier thing underneath all that coolness: how much of your life is actually yours, and how much of it was handed to you so smoothly you stopped noticing? Reality. Simulation.
Your phone has had enough of your attention. For two hours, we’re doing the opposite of the internet: sitting in a room with other people and actually reading. No assigned book. No performance. No one asking you to summarize your thoughts every five minutes.
A lot of animated films ask you to choose a side. Princess Mononoke does something more honest and more difficult. The forest is not simply innocent. Industry is not simply evil. The gods are sacred and terrifying. The humans are desperate, wounded, clever, hungry, and often half-right. That is what makes this movie still feel alive.
Some movies get called mysterious because they are empty. Eyes Wide Shut is mysterious because it keeps looking back at you. Kubrick’s final film is about marriage, desire, jealousy, secrecy, performance, fantasy, class, money, and the weird little theatre people build around what they want but cannot admit.
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