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(I know most people will laugh at the idea, but I re-watched it for surely the dozenth time the other night and was struck once again by just how much is going on in there.)
I chose not to write a dissertation at university - I knew I didn't have the self-discipline to do it properly - but if I had, it would have been on this film.
'This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.'
Yeah, I don't see it even approaching that level. And, really, it falls off a lot in the last act and loses so much of what made it clever. Not to say it was bad, but it became more run-of-the-mill, I thought.
...though most tend to focus just on Nietzsche and eternal recurrence, which, as mentioned in that article, is probably a little off. People also write about Camus and The Myth of Sispyhus. So people definitely agree with you, Jonny!
Though supporting that kind of analysis doesn't make it a great movie, of course. But, I'd definitely call it a great movie! It's a mainstream comedy that's thought-provoking, funny, and smart, which is pretty darn impressive.