I am almost surprised that he didn’t title the story, “THIS IS TOTALLY FICTION” since for me it is so obvious what the story tells, which others have been killed for. But it is a beautiful movie. Incredible.
And also, it seems rather obvious, to me at least, that it IS, A METAPHORIC STORY OF Jerzy Kosinski OWN LIFE, AND OF HIS EXPERIENCE, OF LIFE WITH HUMANS. Obviously he himself, noticed SO CLEAR, WHAT IS GOING ON.
And since his first name is so odd, and I, who have a Slavic background, never heard this name before, I wonder, (not having looked into it) if Jerzy is really a real Polish name!?, or did he get that name in a similar way, to the guy in his story?
And for his own part, he could obviously feel, that he himself could be considered rather empty, that his life and persona on one side/from at least one view, was empty, since it was all full of lies. So the rather blank~empty character in his story, having the experience of humans that he does, only fits perfect with his own life as well, while there are, all at the same time, so many other factors throughout the story, telling the truth, in all Metaphoric ways, about many other things,than just himself and the ruling of the dumbed down world.
The film even covers different aspects of how it works, this ruling and stupidifying of the the world, and how the human psyche works, how easily fooled we are, how many just see what they wanna see, even when the truth becomes so obvious, that now you think everyone will realize and freak out about it, then they just go on still seeing what they wanna see. In this story even their innocent side of humans is revealed, that side which want wisdom and higher meaning, to even divinity in life.
This film is absolutely amazing.
Also, the same time the factor of lies, shows (delivers a message saying) that the more you lie, the more clear the truth becomes, weather hidden or obvious (that depends entirely on who is ready to see it ~ who has developed the skills to see it) to notice it. ~ and as you allow yourself to be the fool, in all the negative, you end up with nothing, and in that nothing you find goodness, which is kind of everything, at least everything we need/want, everything what is important and thereby relevant, more relevant than anything else (since whatever you focus on grows).
He was in a divine flow with this story. I bet you he was in such a divine flow, that he himself didn’t even notice exactly all of the layers, of all the messages, all the truth and symbolism and metaphors, that formed it self as he wrote the story.
The people who then created the movie, did an amazing job as well. ….perhaps the story works like a spell of truth!?
BEING THERE • a YouTube-version of the movie, and the COMMENTARY / ANALYZING of it, both of which, I hope will not be deleted at some point, now that I have shared it here! Though I have to say, I would like to see an original of it, and that many times!, because it is full of several layers of metaphors and symbolism, running through the whole movie all at the same time, so that you can hardly follow all of them at the same time. AND, I get the feeling that it is one of those films, which, each time you watch it, you see new details in it, which you didn’t notice before. And already somewhere early in the movie, I started thining to myself, who makes movies so well these days!? ….so skillfully! Who has such depth now, to make so many fine layers run through one story, all at once, all at the same time, throughout the whole tale!?
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