If some movies act as our mentors, make us imagine new and even beautiful ideas that you were not able to see yourself, Dune is not that movie. I did not feel more grounded or lighter than the air after the movie. Dune lacks joyful imagination.
Main theme is fanatism and religious fundamentalism as a normal and almost inevitable reaction to fascism. Yet, you do not win by fighting evil with evil (said by both Jesus and Jim Jefferies). Dune has a rather unsinspired way of presenting "fight evil with evil" universe as "inevitable".
In a symbolic story, or any good story, you need to have a contrast between good and bad. In mature art, the conflict is inside every person. In pop art, the conflict is between persons. In Dune, there is no internal conflict like in mature art but there is no pop-art type conflict either. The lack of dramatic conflict explains that the stellar cast was underused in the film.
Dune novel by Frank Herber may have been a clever and cautionary story at its own time. Inportant for the discussion which are the routes out after oppression and colonialism. I understand that Dune should primarily be read and watched as a warning.
The reason for my disappointment - disguised in anger - was that I feel that the world deserves hope. We do not need Messiah. We need hope and complex human interactions. We need enlightment. And Dune did not give us hope. And it certainly did not give us enlightment.
Main theme is fanatism and religious fundamentalism as a normal and almost inevitable reaction to fascism. Yet, you do not win by fighting evil with evil (said by both Jesus and Jim Jefferies). Dune has a rather unsinspired way of presenting "fight evil with evil" universe as "inevitable".
In a symbolic story, or any good story, you need to have a contrast between good and bad. In mature art, the conflict is inside every person. In pop art, the conflict is between persons. In Dune, there is no internal conflict like in mature art but there is no pop-art type conflict either. The lack of dramatic conflict explains that the stellar cast was underused in the film.
Dune novel by Frank Herber may have been a clever and cautionary story at its own time. Inportant for the discussion which are the routes out after oppression and colonialism. I understand that Dune should primarily be read and watched as a warning.
The reason for my disappointment - disguised in anger - was that I feel that the world deserves hope. We do not need Messiah. We need hope and complex human interactions. We need enlightment. And Dune did not give us hope. And it certainly did not give us enlightment.
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