Dopamine

[waxwing]

The Love and Sex discussion got me thinking about the indie film, Dopamine.
Recommended.

[s0978]

Ooh, liked the premise, thought the movie itself was pretty disappointing.

Thought he was INTP, she ESFP.

[waxwing]

Definitely INTP (had a slight crush on him). Her? I would have guessed ENFJ for some reason.

Why, if you care to share, did you find the movie itself "pretty disappointing?"

I can say that I too liked the premise more than the fleshing out of the concepts. If that's what you mean, I think I understand.

[s0978]

Hmm, I guess I hoped there would be some insight on the concept of "love is a neurochemical reaction," but there was none. He thought so, she didn't, but they dug each other anyway. Doesn't matter what it is, what counts is that love drives us. And that seems to be it... and so?

Or -- do you think there's something richer about the movie that I've missed?

The INTP was rather attractive.

[waxwing]

Hmm, I guess I hoped there would be some insight on the concept of "love is a neurochemical reaction," but there was none. He thought so, she didn't, but they dug each other anyway. Doesn't matter what it is, what counts is that love drives us. And that seems to be it... and so?

Or -- do you think there's something richer about the movie that I've missed?

The INTP was rather attractive.
Okay. Yeah. At the beginning of the film, I thought that concept would be explored more fully. That was my initial draw to the film. I agree that the course of their relationship, the termination of Koy Koy, and the undercurrent suggesting that human beings must find ways to rediscover lost/needed love (her daughter, his mother, a mate for koy koy), sort of leaned towards saying that love (what we do with it in relationship, actively) is all that really matters. I mean, koy koy vs. the proposed rabbit for the school? mother with alzheimers vs. mother he remembers loving, etc...

However, I kind of appreciated the openendedness of the film. Bob Dylan. Neither answer is correct (hers or his). Both of them are just searching, traveling, in the end.

I mean, I'm pretty sure she never reuintes (can't remember for sure) with her daughter. He has that one emotional moment with his mother. And koy koy ends, but lives on in rand's relationship with sarah (now he has found a mate, just as they proposed for koy koy). I really have no idea. This is just what came to mind.

I still crack up when I think of "preschool neophytes."

I like the opening scenes to the movie. I thought it was artistically done.

Wait a sec, remember his father and mother? Although his father seems to support rand's view in the beginning, the evidence of his genuine love for his wife seems to suggest something, I'm not sure what though. Hmmmm.