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Bezig met laden... The Film Club: No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week (origineel 2007; editie 2010)door David Gilmour (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkDe filmclub door David Gilmour (2007)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Eram tempos difíceis para David Gilmour: sem trabalho fixo, com o dinheiro curto e o filho de 15 anos colecionando reprovações em todas as matérias do ensino médio. Diante da desorientação e da infelicidade desse filho-problema, o pai faz uma oferta fora dos padrões: o garoto poderia sair da escola — e ficar sem trabalhar e sem pagar aluguel — desde que assistisse semanalmente a três filmes escolhidos pelo pai. Com essa aposta diferente na recuperação e na formação de um rapaz que está “perdido”, formaram o clube do filme. Semana a semana, lado a lado, pai e filho viam e discutiam o melhor (e, ocasionalmente, o pior) do cinema: de A Doce Vida (o clássico de Federico Fellini) a Instinto Selvagem (o thriller sensual estrelado por Sharon Stone); de Os Reis do Iê, Iê, Iê (hit cinematográfico da Beatlemania) a O Iluminado (interpretação primorosa de Jack Nicholson, dirigido por Stanley Kubrick); de O Poderoso Chefão (um dos integrantes das listas de “melhores filmes de todos os tempos”) a Amores Expressos (cult romântico e contemporâneo do chinês Wong Kar-Way). Essas sessões os mantinham em constante diálogo — sobre mulheres, música, dor de cotovelo, trabalho, drogas, amor, amizade —, e abriam as portas para o universo interior do adolescente, num momento em que os pais geralmente as encontram fechadas. David Gilmour, crítico de cinema e escritor premiado, oferece uma percepção singular sobre filmes, roteiros, diretores e atores inesquecíveis ao relatar essa vivência com olho clínico e muita sinceridade. O autor emociona ao colocar os leitores diante da descoberta da vida adulta pelos olhos de um jovem e dos dilemas da adolescência administrados por um pai muito presente. Nas palavras de Gilmour: “É um exemplo do que o cinema é capaz, de como os filmes podem vencer suas defesas e realmente atingir seu coração.” The book deserves a lot of the criticism I'm seeing on Goodreads. People who like it seem less compelled to say why than those who don't. I'll take a minute to tell you why I like it. It's an examination of a desperate father having a second (or in this author's case, maybe a 4th or 5th) mid-life crisis. He's overly involved in his son's post-adolescent coming of age, and clinging to it in an unhealthy way - in fact, he's likely making it much harder on his son... all while seemingly, genuinely, seeking to be a good dad. He comes across as a sort of youth and masculinity vampire. It's desperate and a thing to behold. This is a man with some serious difficulty with women and feeling comfortable in his own skin... but you know what? That's a LOT of men - and he's at least willing to examine it and confess to the trouble (to some degree - a lot of his failings are only under examination when you read between the lines). It's a struggle that kills guys all the time - we should look at it more closely, or we'll continue seeing guys kill themselves mid-life, like salmon who have finished spawning. While David congratulates himself for leaving certain interaction to Jesse and his peers... he does so while fostering the most iron clad dependence I've ever seen described between a parent and child. Dependence that the son only succeeds in escaping from when he abandons the entire experiment the book is describing (without abandoning his gains - namely, specialist knowledge to be an informed critic, a job his father is grooming him for in a transparent attempt to hijack his son's interests and imprint himself on the boy as hard as possible in the last remaining years of the son's reliance on his parents). But I like the book. You don't have to like characters to like a book. You can learn a lot from someone who's living very differently than yourself, and who has glaring flaws (this author has a troubling view of women, beyond understandably taking his son's side when things go wrong with his relationships). When you confess to the fact that your boy turns to you, fearful that his feelings emasculate him - and you dispel that fear while reinforcing it with everything else you do... it paints a picture of the condition of masculinity in our culture, and the microcosm of the family. A framework that is fraught with hypocrisy and ugliness. A propping up of male ego at the expense of women. Career, education, and aspiration are all described pejoratively against women, while these attributes are being sought for his son. Everything he wants for his son, he rejects in his son's female peers. It's stark. That doesn't make the examination invalid. I hope David and Jesse can escape the prisons they've inherited. They're said to almost kill the kid repeatedly through the book... and yet are never recognized (by the characters) as hazardous constructions of their own making. An honest look at a tragic state of being. edit to add: I'm downgrading the book to 3 stars (from 4). Much of the work's value as layered revelation about the faults of it's author are too subtle to accurately characterize him - and I don't want to imply that the book's virtue is in the face-value content of the book itself. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films. At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The link between providing his son with an alternate education via film was flimsy. Skip this one. ( )