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- This is said to be based on the best-selling novel by the French philosopher, Muriel Barbery. This seems to pit the absurdist philosophy of meaninglessness against the earthy love of life. A precocious young girl decides to end her life on reaching her 12 th birthday, about 300 days to go, because of the essential absurdist view that life is like a fish in a bowl--a trap to escape from. She is not afraid of death, but on the other hand, despises people around, given as they are to their silly fads. She, however, enjoys filming life all the time, as a kind of aesthetic object. While she awaits the D-day she set for herself, she gets involved with the conceirge, a widow in her early 50s (the janitor of their of apartment building), who lives a secluded life and nurtures a private passion for literary books; Tolstoy is her favorite. The young girl befriends her and eventual grows fond of her. eventually she comes to know that love suddenly enlivened her arid life when a Japanese man started seeing her. At this point of time the concirge is accidentally killed by a speeding vehicle and the girl is deeply disturbed. She realizes that death could mean you are denied the privilege of seeing your loved ones when you die. This simple revelation changes her decision to die!
As the reviewer of Philadelphia Enqirer calls it is an enchanting fairy tale about the redemptive power of love--a Sartre's Being and Nothingness-meets-Dr. Seuss (the philosopher and cartoonist who wrote children's books)!!!
- This is said to be based on the best-selling novel by the French philosopher, Muriel Barbery. This seems to pit the absurdist philosophy of meaninglessness against the earthy love of life. A precocious young girl decides to end her life on reaching her 12 th birthday, about 300 days to go, because of the essential absurdist view that life is like a fish in a bowl--a trap to escape from. She is not afraid of death, but on the other hand, despises people around, given as they are to their silly fads. She, however, enjoys filming life all the time, as a kind of aesthetic object. While she awaits the D-day she set for herself, she gets involved with the conceirge, a widow in her early 50s (the janitor of their of apartment building), who lives a secluded life and nurtures a private passion for literary books; Tolstoy is her favorite. The young girl befriends her and eventual grows fond of her. eventually she comes to know that love suddenly enlivened her arid life when a Japanese man started seeing her. At this point of time the concirge is accidentally killed by a speeding vehicle and the girl is deeply disturbed. She realizes that death could mean you are denied the privilege of seeing your loved ones when you die. This simple revelation changes her decision to die!
As the reviewer of Philadelphia Enqirer calls it is an enchanting fairy tale about the redemptive power of love--a Sartre's Being and Nothingness-meets-Dr. Seuss (the philosopher and cartoonist who wrote children's books)!!!
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