He made it sound so good! I think what he liked is that I picked scenes out of the movie that tied really well into the philosophy text I made it a companion of. The philosopher had this idea that people 500+ years ago believed in a magical world where anything could happen. Not just Christ and the resurrection and heaven but demons and humours and house spirits — pretty much everything was possible – and he posited that one’s sense-of-self was “porous” – everything was really out of your control and things that happened to you came from the outside.
But that science, enlightenment, etc put a barrier between us and the world — the brain vs the body, psychoanalyzing everything as if every problem was happening in the brain in your head and not out there… and that that was why we felt disconnected from each other and the world.
So I saw the movie as a way of bridging backwards – that is the aliens brought her back to a more porous self — more open and capable of seeing beyond herself and the world…as the aliens introduced a language that changed her way of thinking — they used a strong version of the sapir-whorf hypothesis and gave it a little “twist” (that it could physically change your brain) to make it work.
so I picked clips and quotes from the philosopher to try and convey the transformation — but it wasn’t really from having a barrier to being porous but rather that she was able to embrace the paradox of both at the same time.
i didn’t host it on Youtube because I was afraid of copyright takedown stuff as I used a lot of long clips from the film.
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