The message of this movie, corny as it is, is this message about eudaimonia, about what it means to really succeed in life, as a human being That the purpose of art isn't to make money or to earn fans or get laid -- it's not even to make the world a better place and fix society
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Speed gets all of those things in the end -- even changing the world and fixing society, thanks to the hilariously unapologetic way this world is built completely around Racecars Are Serious Business ("The world economy rests on the outcome of a children's card game")
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But that's not the reason to do it The reason to put the bad guys in prison and to usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity is... he gets to keep on driving The reason to make a movie you hope will save the world is so there will be a world where you can make more movies
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The point of being alive is to have that one thing you're damn good at that no one else can do quite the same way you can, and to fucking NAIL IT and know that in that moment YOU ARE AWESOME And to look at your loved ones and see that joy reflected between you and them
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@FilmCritHulk points out one of the ways this movie nails it, where a wussier movie would just be schmaltz, is the unapologetic use of quick cuts and sensory overload We fully see his victory in the rapid-fire succession of everyone else reaction to it)1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
(The whole story is told this way -- nothing stays in one place as long as it should, it meanders, it wanders, it jumps back and forth through time and space, things overlap and carry over from scene to scene Talking and talking in one long string without punctuation marks)
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(They diagnose minds like this as broken Always moving *too fast*, speeding toward the horizon, that moves on four wheels and not two legs, that can't change direction without accelerating, that needs to travel down an open road without obstacles or it will shudder to a halt)
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(And in a world without roads, it would be A racecar trying to go where a racecar can't -- trying to hike through the woods like an animal bred for the rough terrain of nature -- is a sad, useless, expensive hunk of metal)
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(But maybe, just maybe If you can, somehow, scrape together the seed capital Give that car a pit crew, fill up its tires and its gas tank, clear a path for it down the smoothly paved track a racecar needs And watch it do the things ONLY a racecar can do Watch it fucking GO)
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This movie is a pretty great demonstration of "show, don't tell" and the power of form over content in cinema Talking about it at all in words sounds schmaltzy But the movie works because it is, in every way, in every shot and every cut and every frame, a demonstration
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Like, maybe it's my meta knowledge of the Wachowskis' struggles in Hollywood Or maybe it's how the years since 2008 have gone for me, personally A lot of harsh lessons, about talent, and success, and neurodivergence But when Speed crosses the finish line I was fucking bawling
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Arthur - this is a wonderful thread. Is there an article/interview you particularly recommend on the Wachowskis' Hollywood experience?
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