Comment on history repeats itself once again
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 days agoIt is simultaneously the same axe and not the same axe. In a strict material sense, the final axe bears no relationship to the OG axe but in the figurative sense it is the same axe.
We must accept this paradox in the same way we must accept that our bodies are in a constant state of renewal and the person we were seven years ago has been completely renewed at a cellular level (maybe bones are exempt but brain cells don’t last forever). We tend to think of ourselves as a continuous process and our identity persists and is stable. On the other hand, it’s easy to argue that we are not the same person as we were seven years ago, we have grown and changed physically and spiritually. Only our identity documents contend that our identity is static. We seek stability and certainty everywhere and find it nowhere. If we can accept the ever changing nature of the universe at large we can find solace in constant change because that’s how it will always be.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Aww, man, you’ve really got to read the book. From that comment alone I am 100% certain you’d love it for nothing more than the chewy thoughts with long lasting flavor that it has to offer on that precise level.
ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 5 days ago
It bothers me SO MUCH that the film cut the plotlines from the book that that riddle was hinting towards, but kept the intro as a cryptic, unfulfilled promise.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sort of in the same boat, but I also feel like that is a specific case of a book to movie adaptation in that it feels like it’s meant to be watched before reading the book and that it knows that it is not the book. Coscarelli seems to have intentionally done the film in a way to not spoil the book because they knew there was no way they could ever make a proper adaptation without a budget like Endgame had, but they still managed really nail the feel of the book and characters, and that opening primer is so integral to that feel.