Filler Up With Rosebuds
By ice rivers
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What would our lives look like if we eliminated the filler?
Our lives would look like movies. One of the essential reason we go to the movies is to see what human life is like without filler.
Let's consdier Citizen Kane, arguably the greatest movie of all time. Kane begins at the ending, the death of the main character.
Surely death is no filler.
After Kane's death, we encounter the major events of his life.
Surely, the major events of our lives are not filler, although some people's major events are fuller than other people's major events. These are the characters/people who become actual movies.
The remainder of Citizen Kane consists of flashbacks as various witnesses try to figure out what Kane meant by his final word...."Rosebud". Flashback as a cinematic term is another word for memory. Until Kane, movies had very little memory.
Since filler does not exist within memory, every moment within a flashback is non-filler.
See, if we remember it, it's not filler.
Take a quick selfie your memory right now.
Whatever comes to mind is non-filler.
If it were filler, you wouldn't remember it.
Citizen Kane, like all great movies is filler free.
That's one of the reasons great movies don't resemble real life.
Real life is full of filler.
Remove the filler and we have movies. We have stories. We have jokes.
The movie of the full life of Charley Kane runs 119 minutes.
The character of Charley Kane, America's Kubai Khan, lived into his seventies.
That's a lot of filler.
That's life.
I'm about the age of the Kane character when he said "rosebud" and dropped his snow globe.
I'm trying to grab the fullness of my life while I'm still able and put it into words that stay
What about the filler, you ask?
I say, fuggedaboudid.
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I like movies done in one
I like movies done in one shot, Victoria, (set over two hours in Berlin) or the more famous, Birdman - during the production of a play based on a Carver story. That's how life should be lived.
Or maybe, the films of Noah Baumbach, where we see only many slices, not particularly significant, but go up to make the whole.
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Lovely thing to say.
Lovely thing to say.
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