"Every large-scale project that I’ve done has been driven by some sort of internal need. It’s come out of the place that I’ve been at that particular time in my life,” Soth explains in the film. “Sleeping by the Mississippi came out of this desire to wander, to break free. My second project, Niagara, came out of an exploration of love and long-term relationships and commitment. My third project, Broken Manual, I always call my ‘mid-life crisis project’, I was exploring the approach of middle age as a man.”
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"The Bhagavad Gita revolves around the following questions: How can someone live a life spiritually meaningful without withdrawing from society? What can someone who does not want to give up family and social obligations do to live the right way? The Gita challenges the general consensus that only ascetics and monks can live a perfect spiritual life through renunciation and emphasises the value of an active spiritual life."
"The third reason Krishna gives is that inaction is impossible. Withdrawing from battle is in itself a conscious decision; not choosing is still a choice. This is in a way a criticism of some world-views, such as asceticism, which claim that leaving everything behind is inaction: Withdrawing from society is always a deliberate act."
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Top 20 movies of 2020
20. apples
Christopher nikou's first feature appeared as one of the surprise films that seasoned the 2020 cinema year. Director nikou, who also worked as an assistant director in the movie dogtooth (2009) with yorgos lanthimos, follows the tradition of Greek New Wave Cinema (greek weird wave) and also makes a very