Films that Make Me Think...
I really enjoy it when a movie makes me think!
I just saw 'The Queen of Versailles.' It's a documentary about wealth, real estate, greed, family and MONEY. In many ways the real people in the film are MONSTERS.
They are ruled by monstrous desires for stuff, status, power, love or all of the above. I know I'll be thinking about the issues raised in this movie for a long time. Writing, as I do, about monsters, I'm often confronted with out-of-proportion aspects of monsters and how many real people are monstrous in intriguing and disturbing ways.
The desire to live in and to build the largest house in the U.S. and to model that house on the palace of Versailles is the kind of out-sized ambition that drives people toward an inevitable fall. Much like the flawed heroes of Greek mythology and much like the monstrous ambitions of Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll in classic works of horror fiction.
I was inspired by this film. Where this inspiration will lead, I don't yet know, but it is going somewhere!
I just saw 'The Queen of Versailles.' It's a documentary about wealth, real estate, greed, family and MONEY. In many ways the real people in the film are MONSTERS.
They are ruled by monstrous desires for stuff, status, power, love or all of the above. I know I'll be thinking about the issues raised in this movie for a long time. Writing, as I do, about monsters, I'm often confronted with out-of-proportion aspects of monsters and how many real people are monstrous in intriguing and disturbing ways.
The desire to live in and to build the largest house in the U.S. and to model that house on the palace of Versailles is the kind of out-sized ambition that drives people toward an inevitable fall. Much like the flawed heroes of Greek mythology and much like the monstrous ambitions of Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll in classic works of horror fiction.
I was inspired by this film. Where this inspiration will lead, I don't yet know, but it is going somewhere!
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I've always been terrified of living life with a goal or purpose so I can't help wondering if these people are the same but don't have any creative outlets for their needs?
I think I'll have to see this movie for myself!