THE MOVIE “TRUTH” AS FALSEHOOD – ALBEIT WELL WRITTEN
OMG, what a hollywood-engineered piece of propaganda for resurrecting their own morally dead.
But as dialog for smart people, with a good cast, if you ignore the almost non-existent excuse-making narrative, you can find Sorkin’s style in there.
What is that style? The discourse of inferences.
The opening scene where she walks into an office and the conversation is not reduced to proletarian simplicity by actors pretending to be members of the upper middle educated classes.
It’s a model of dialog only possible if you first flesh out your character’s entire life, interests, portfolio of views, and
Unfortunately, all these characters have the same progressive (fantastical) lives, interests, and portfolio of views.
Characters should represent real world entities, working through mythic (universal lessons) problems. Mythology requires exaggeration – which we usually call hyperbole in order to draw attention to relevant properties of individuals and circumstances that they encounter.
I am not impressed by the depth of psychology one can explore in the nuance of incentives of the dysfunctional – which is the postmodern trend using psychologizing for status signals. In fact I am not sure that the entire literary edifice is other than a vast church for the distribution of immorality for the purpose of obtaining status signals despite doing nothing productive on this earth.
Why should one care about the depth of your dysfunctional feelings, rather than the means by which you conquer them and life’s challenges?
The postmoderns, feminists, socialists, libertines, are all a cancer fed by consumerism, made possible by debt, made possible by the burning of thousands of years of western evolutionary history.
Kill them all and let their gods sort it out.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 06:35:00 UTC