What are the big idea stories I've really liked?

Fellini's Satryicon. What it symbolized for me I know not at all if that's what he was going for. Maybe the same idea could more or less be potentially drawn from endless movies. To me it symbolized all the endless (wonderful) people that have lived and died such lives that I'll never ever know. Of whom no meaningful trace is left.

It sears my soul somehow this movie. It is for me the best movie of all. The music and images are crucial. Much of it, the crucial symbolic stuff, is beyond my conscious mind. And perhaps I'd rather it stay that way.... Nah. But for now it is.

Kurosawa and Dosteovsky's The Idiot is such an important concept to me, yet is paid virtually no attention to in modern society. I think because people just aren't honest basically. Everyone hides how being good leaves them open to be hurt. Like most of the blogs I've got linked (with a few exceptions) people hide almost all their weaknesses.

And so many of these good people are tied into minority activist causes (I think) and I really suspect activists feel the need to be kind of fake. They feel like they're always on display as a representative of whatever activist cause they're associated with and thus must hide any 'weaknesses' lest that weakness be used against them in some attack by the conformists. And so The Idiot concept is all around us and yet something of a secret.

I think? Ultimately who knows for sure what all these people are hiding. I'm pretty sure they're hiding so much though and it annoys me. It is against truth seeking. Although, it means they're not as big of Idiots.

Panglossianism. Voltaire's Candide tried to show it. Anyone else? It is the most crucial concept in politics, yet it seems to rarely be mentioned. Would I be attacked as preachy and polemical if I tried to write a story primarily dealing with this concept? Probably. Was Voltaire being preachy? Would Candide even have gotten published today?

I love how over the top Kurosawa's Ran is. I would like to see that same feeling reached but concerning social actions reminiscent of the most awful of Milan Kundera's stories. Surely someone else has managed it but no one comes to mind at the moment. ...I think of Monty Python's The Search for the Holy Grail where he gets the "what's your favorite color?" question wrong. A world where humans are utterly hopeless to the point where they aren't capable of telling the truth about anything. They can't do anything honest. Everything is an act. And behind the act there is nothing at all.

I appreciate how Kubrick didn't use the same actors over and over again unlike most of the other best directors. Also he was more consistently very good, excluding his last film which unfortunately starred two miscast truly ugly human beings. It's only chance was by making them clearly evil, which it didn't. Kubrick didn't strike me as being as ambitious though. He didn't get crazy like Fellini. He didn't go for the big, cerebral ideas quite like Kurosawa.

Tim Burton was lucky/smart enough to latch on to Richard Elfman of Oingo Boingo to do the music to his movies. Although he's a long way short of the others mentioned....

Terry Gilliam did some nice things. Brazil was a nice little dystopia. The ending of that movie reminds me strangely of the bizarre happy ending to Jack Vance's Emphyrio. I'm sure Vance was given orders by his publishers to cut it short and make it happy. And it seems he purposely made it ridiculous. Which works in a way, if you're thinking abnormally hard. Because there won't actually ever be any socialist utopia.

...or it's unlikely anyway. Still should move forward somehow.