Pretentious or a Masterpiece?

both

Neither, just boring.

>>79096223
perfect answer. love this movie

>>79096223
explain

>>79096223
Agreed, the pretentiousness is part of why it's great. It captures the desperate need some people feel to try to do something meaningful with their lives and the need to leave behind some kind of grand statement even though the majority of people will never have something that important to say.

>>79097220

thats it huh?

masterpiece. A true kino

>>79097507
Sort of. It does that, but it has some extra sting to it, because Kaufman is so associated with this kind of endless, tongue chewing anxiety and suicidal depression and by wallowing in that he's treated as being more honest than a typical screenwriter. So it's both a kind of general statement about finding meaning through art in life, and a more specific one, that he personally hasn't found any meaning. And so if you, as an audience are hoping to somehow leech off the tortured artist's journey, for some meaning of your own, you're even more fucked. It's pretty amazingly bleak. And, in that bleakness, it moves past pretentiousness, and onto an actual honest statement of nihilism.

>>79096220
a beautiful work on simulacra and simulations, one will respect it more if one gets involved with works of the philosopher Jean Baudrillard

>>79097704
thats a good explaination. ty anon