Post by Bob on Feb 13, 2017 11:18:30 GMT
JenSai
Outstanding post. You're raising the bar!
I loved this film too. I am ridiculously happy that Chris got involved and like you say he put in an amazing performance but the whole team did. Films are always a team effort. Isn't life? I think the 'babies taste best' is the line that sticks in your mind because it's so shocking but coming from a character till that point has been held up to be the hero, it really makes you stop and question everything you've seen.
It made me think. I'd have to watch it again. I remember thinking why did they go for a baby which is small instead of an adult which would provide more food? Then you think - because a baby can't fight back. It's easier. Then your stomach turns because you realise that sums up the world, that it's always the most vulnerable and defenceless who suffer most. Just look at Syria or any war for that matter. Then you think about the train and the ones further forward always mistreat the ones further back. This scene shows us that given the chance even the ones at the very back will themselves exploit people below them to the point of killing and eating babies. Do you think it's cynical about people? We're always ready to misuse our power on anyone even weaker than we are? Or is it optimistic because Gilliam offered his own arm to save the baby Edgar and put a stop to the cannibalism with his example of self-sacrifice? Or both?
When I have a beer with The Evans next time I want to ask what emotions and thoughts it prodded playing someone at the back of the train of that society when in real life he travels in the front carriage? What feelings are provoked playing the desperately downtrodden then being taken back to a 5 star hotel in a chauffeur driven limousine? Gratitude, guilt, a heightened sensitivity to injustice, a burning need for pizza and Budvar? Did it make you a better person? In what ways? Does every character you play leave a tiny bit of themselves inside you or were they there anyway, you just have to find them? Does becoming other people help you learn about your real self or make it harder to work out which bits really are you? Or am I overcomplicating things and it's just an adult game of make believe? Answers on a postcard, please.
Outstanding post. You're raising the bar!
I loved this film too. I am ridiculously happy that Chris got involved and like you say he put in an amazing performance but the whole team did. Films are always a team effort. Isn't life? I think the 'babies taste best' is the line that sticks in your mind because it's so shocking but coming from a character till that point has been held up to be the hero, it really makes you stop and question everything you've seen.
It made me think. I'd have to watch it again. I remember thinking why did they go for a baby which is small instead of an adult which would provide more food? Then you think - because a baby can't fight back. It's easier. Then your stomach turns because you realise that sums up the world, that it's always the most vulnerable and defenceless who suffer most. Just look at Syria or any war for that matter. Then you think about the train and the ones further forward always mistreat the ones further back. This scene shows us that given the chance even the ones at the very back will themselves exploit people below them to the point of killing and eating babies. Do you think it's cynical about people? We're always ready to misuse our power on anyone even weaker than we are? Or is it optimistic because Gilliam offered his own arm to save the baby Edgar and put a stop to the cannibalism with his example of self-sacrifice? Or both?
When I have a beer with The Evans next time I want to ask what emotions and thoughts it prodded playing someone at the back of the train of that society when in real life he travels in the front carriage? What feelings are provoked playing the desperately downtrodden then being taken back to a 5 star hotel in a chauffeur driven limousine? Gratitude, guilt, a heightened sensitivity to injustice, a burning need for pizza and Budvar? Did it make you a better person? In what ways? Does every character you play leave a tiny bit of themselves inside you or were they there anyway, you just have to find them? Does becoming other people help you learn about your real self or make it harder to work out which bits really are you? Or am I overcomplicating things and it's just an adult game of make believe? Answers on a postcard, please.
