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No joke, this film helped me get over really bad mental stuff. That the human spirit can sort of compensate for pretty much anything is what I find beautiful. B

• preommr 4y ago
  Same for me. I often think about this movie along with your point about how some people have to pay more for their dreams. The way that I think about things now I think reflects the protagonist in the movie: In many ways it doesn't matter. The goal and the obsession that some people have is so all-consumming that they'd pay any price to achieve it. There's a scene where ethan hawke's character has to go through a painful bone procedure to adjust his height and he comforts himself by thinking he's a few inches closer to the stars. Everything is just about coming one step closer to the goal regardless of if it can be reached or if someone else can get there faster.
  • Frummy 4y ago
    Completely true. I found myself last year waking up every day saying fuck it, 5 caffeine pills to read the next book and same thing tomorrow, suffering is relative and sort of fake, it's just an experience like any other. There's only one life so it doesn't matter how easy someone else has it, that's inaccessible. Anyway I was fucked up over my brain and balls being fucked up from birth and losing 50% of my net worth but now that I am like two months away from owning a house and have the job that I want I've forgotten what used to bother me it's not even on the map anymore, call it nonattachment or call it positive nihilism you just grow past things. Im healed after surgery and walk normally, I blend in so and so and that's good enough