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What a great movie!

I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand how some of the scenes fit with existentialism... particularly the mud-love-making scene. I understand the love-making, but the mud??? Still, this movie is bound to pique the viewer's interest in existentialism, a philosophy I find most interesting ever since I read an introduction to Sartre.

In many ways, this movie clarifies Sartre's views for me... how each agent is ultimately responsible for their own choice. Human nature and God are concepts created by us to divert responsibility for our own actions on to something else. Being (for oneself, for others, and just BEING), forlornness, anguish... so many of these concepts reflected in the characters, the situations they are confronted with. Awesome.

Hmm, I am feeling a sudden, inexplicable urge to go read something further about this... Nietzsche it is then!