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Monday, August 28, 2006

i watched moulin rouge today, which I haven't done in a while; i needed to recall the order the songs occured because i was rearranging my music files. i was reminded of how incredibly great most of the movie is, and how horrible the ending is. you can't find more passionate and romantic moments than exist in the beginning, and a more pointless and depressing ending. the feelings it creates are completely and utterly inconsistent; romantic anticipation and triump in the beginning, versus helplessness, disaster, and death in the end. i'd like to say this is the result of inconsistent premises, but it really isn't. i don't know it all well enough to explain, but rand talks about the state of romanticism in Romantic Manifesto, and describes the philosophic forces at work in this kind of movie pretty well.
the same tragedy inevitably occurs in other romantic movies (here i'm using romantic in the artistic, not emotional, sense) like V, where the movie goes win-win-win-win-lose; endings where the good guys make it to the end are so hard to come by. what i wouldn't give for a fantastic romantic musical like moulin rouge that had a happy ending (it'd be nice if there was more cause-and-effect giving weight to the events, but that's a lot to ask for from people who can't even get the ending right)

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