That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What's been lost is allowing cinema to be artful, playful, to have ambiguity, to have form, to be contemplative, to wish to be art. This slightly timeless approach to reality, like Chekhov in literature, where you look at all humanity and try to find what's transcendent.
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
I always viewed life as material for a movie.