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SEK can talk about current films that make billions of dollars all he wants to; readers of LGM know that the movies that really matter are the ones I like. And thus allow me to recommend Alex Cox’s essay on the superb Lonely Are The Brave.
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I saw that movie when I was a young man. It made me remarkably sad. I had assumed when I was young that if you followed the proper principles that things would turn out well. But here was an essentially good man following honest principles, yet the tragic outcome comes not in spite of his adherence to some ideas that I admired, but the inevitable consequence of them. Heroism became a more complex issue after watching that movie.
Kirk Douglas was remarkable in that film. And as I think of it, Michael Douglas’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” continued the conversation.
I caught the last half of that movie late one night in my late teens and I had a similar reaction to it. I suppose I’ve always taken it to be what is meant by the tragic condition of life.
Incidentally, I didn’t know the title of it until today. Now I have no excuse for not renting it. Thanks.
“I know now that at best I will come remotely close. But more important — I do know also that just trying to be you will make a better me.”