Talk:Film (film)

Note entirely sure
I'm still not entirely sure about this:


 * A possible reading of this is that self-perception is inescapable. Thus, it is not surprising that the original script begins with George Berkeley's dictum, "esse est percipi," meaning, "to be is to be perceived." 

It seems to me that the point of the film is that avoidance of all perception is impossible, because one cannot avoid self-perception, which is slightly different to what the article says. And because avoidance of perception is impossible, one cannot cease to be. This perhaps makes sense of the scene (not described in the article) where he tears up some old photos of himself, and would seem to make more sense of the Berkeley quote (to me, anyway). There's perhaps some Cartesian influence in all that. But anyway, I'm not going to change anything about interpretation until I've got to some sources that tell me what critics have made of it all - then I can attribute these interpreatations to people instead of waffling on myself. --Camembert

An anon editor has changed the reference to a print of God on the wall to a print of a Phoenician statue. Now, I've not seen the film itself in ages, but the script as published says it is a print of "God the Father"; was this changed when it was shot? If so, I think it's an important enough change that it's worth us noting it in the article. Can anybody confirm what is actually in the film? --Camembert 18:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Seems like it is Sumerian. I've added details and souces. See an image of it here. --FaWaka (talk) 03:26, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

1979 remake Not monochrome
I removed 'in monochrome and' from the intro. "Colour is in fact used by Clark with great restraint." Richard Cave’s review of the 1979 version of the film Great explanation - I was really confused by Film itself ! --195.137.93.171 (talk) 22:59, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

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Confusing title
This page has a confusing title. Can someone change it? Buster Reynolds (talk) 12:54, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

History of the film
I added the "essay" tag because this is written very much like an essay. Lines like "If Beckett were Shakespeare he might well have written: “To be seen or not to be seen, that is the question."", rhetorical questions such as "But what happens when you are alone?", and phrases such "it comes as no surprise that..." seem especially out of place in an encyclopedia. This is a very interesting analysis of a film I personally love, but not exactly suited to here. Also, this lacks much information about the history of the film, its production and release and all that. This is a rather good essay, but a rather poor Wikipedia page. StrexcorpEmployee (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2022 (UTC)