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Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
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Title: The Sea That Thinks (2000)
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Bart Klever | ... | Klever, Bart |
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Devika Strooker | ... | Marga |
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Rick de Leeuw | ... | Self |
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Don Duyns | ... | Duyns, Don |
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The Sea That Thinks is a surprising film about itself. A film overflowing with twists and turns and new angles. It focuses on Bart, a scriptwriter who is writing the script for this film. In the film, Bart himself plays the scriptwriter writing the script of The Sea That Thinks. He types what he does and does what he types. In his film, he finds the answer to the urgent question: How do we find happiness? He uses stunning examples to show us that our world is only to be found in our consciousness. What is real and what is illusion? Do we believe in our dream world while we dream? Do we believe in the reality of film while we see it? And why? His combination of pictures and text has a hypnotic effect on the viewer. It provides an exciting, dislocating and humorous adventure. Later it also becomes apparent that the film is not about this tormented scriptwriter at all. In a game filled with optical illusions and continually changing points of view, the surprised viewers gradually find ... Written by Gert de Graaff <gdg@nl.packardbell.org>
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Composed and performed by Simon Fisher-Turner (as Simon Fisher Turner)
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21 December 2000 (Netherlands) See more »Also Known As:
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I won't spend a lot of time nor energy on this comment. I just want to add it because all the comments were so positive I felt like I just had to let people know that not everyone is so thrilled, let alone intellectually provoked by this attempt at creating a captivating philosophical cinematic enigma. Some scenes seemed promising, playing with visual dimensions, but couldn't hold up the rest. I felt like I was stoned for the first time again, having semi-philosophical conversations with fellow adolescents.
What a futile attempt to raise Dutch cinema to new heights. I'd rather watch Jesus is een Palestijn, without all the pretentions and with straight forward humor, also raising questions about life and the realities we create for ourselves.
Gert de Graff is not Jean-Luc Godard or Tarkovsky and appearantly never will be.