| rocketpig said: Dialogue isn't everything, you know. One of the most poignant scenes of 2001 involved a computer singing a song. If you don't comprehend all that's going on underneath that simple dialogue, I don't know what to say. BTW, I noticed that you didn't even bother to respond to my book comment. |
The problem with subtlety that while it is an artistic way of expresing ones self it is not true philosophy, I'd classify it as pseudo philosophy. For something to be truly a philosophical argument it has to address whatever issues it is exploring clearly, completely and percisely. It's not meant for the reader to interpret the discourse, but the writer to fully express himself in a way that doesn't allow others to find a loophole in his exposition, effectively invalidating his arguement.
Everything can be interpreted and at the end of the day we never truly know the intention of the writer or if he even had any true intention with a particular scene. We don't learn anything directly, rather we learn from whatever interpretation we built up from ourselves with is subject to faulty interpretation. If something is spoon fed as you say, at least it is made clear what the intentions were, what the argument and ideas are and from that we can decide whether to incorporate the message ourselves, alter to fit our belief system or completely ignore it. As far as books, I do read non fiction books (science, etc) however I am unwilling to read fiction books as they don't do anything for me. I cannot relate to the characters because imaging them doesn't make them seem any more "real", so in the end all non fiction books just end up feeling very cold and distant from me, unable to really enviion what going on in the story.
