My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with Andre is an hour and fifty minutes of the conversations that I would like to have much more often. The more I watched the more enthralled and refreshingly convoluted my brain became.
It’s hard to say it in a way that doesn’t sound pompous or pretentious and from a genuine standpoint I really don’t mean to be… But in a sense if your a person who may consider themselves somewhere on a intellectual spectrum or who contemplates about life or who has and relation to what could be defined as art or artistic…then I really do think this will be refreshing and beneficial to you.
My Dinner with Andre is literally a conversation at a restaurant, that’s it, and throughout itself it spirals down a path of Life, Meaning, Society, Art, obscurity and obscenity. The film does all of these things while still yet balancing the existential and the personal in such a genuine manner, there is a wellspring of potential thoughts and ideas to be gained from in this film, overall I think it makes you a much more aware human being even if your own opinions differ from what’s on screen, you may even end up forming many of your own.
I constantly found myself listening to the words and understanding them, yet not looking directly at the screen, how could I, I was immersed in thought almost as if it was scratching an itch that in our current society we just don’t get to as often as we should. I suppose you could say that this film is “Intellectually stimulating” in way that would make the world better if we could all participate in such activities from time to time.
This film was like breathing in cold wind from a mountain top whilst your body is surrounded in warm sand in terms of how refreshing it was to me, it may sound pompous or hyperbole but that was my genuine reaction to the film.
“If you’re operating by habit. Then your not really living”
“we are bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you Wally that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing, created by a world totalitarian government based on money, and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks? and it's not just a question of individual survival Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?”
This film is an 65% that