On death, being and relationships from My Dinner with Andre

[@msanders2605]

"We had better parties, and we had worse parties. But I doubt I'll ever forget my dinner with Andre dinner with Abed" -Winger

[@gwynbleiddzireael4391]

He does a great Abed impression

[@nazdardashti5791]

Haha so true! I just saw Community My Dinner with Andre Dinner with Abed 😂😂

[@eoinMB3949]

Ha! I literally just watched that episode.

[@mrl2h2]

“where’s that son?” always make me shiver

[@patmaloney5735]

To play Erik Satie after all of that is sheer brilliance.

[@DorZinger]

fucking brilliant

[@sectiongang]

Nothing short of profound. They talk about the end of childhood (as my children reach adulthood) and then my favorite piece of music enters. Floored.

[@andybaldman]

Why?

[@williamneal9076]

It's what motivated me to buy the piece by Erik Satie. I enjoy the 1st one best.

[@talibhassan652]

This is not a movie. This is not an art. This is the sum of all existence.

[@aaronshanker6019]

@Perry Ellis you are calling those who believe in a higher power idiots when Atheist believe in nothing are smart? Well I guess I'll keep being an idiot and I hope you find peace brother 🙏

[@aaronshanker6019]

@Perry Ellis we believe in those things too and God so what's so bad about it now?

[@aaronshanker6019]

@Perry Ellis I can say the same for you too... because in my reality you don't have a reality. That's the beauty of views we don't believe in each other but we can understand, respect and tolerate 🥳

[@Jessica-BornAgain]

@Perry Ellis -you believe in MAN! Men with self appointed authority....they’re your gods. Science, biology, etc has ZERO to do with FACTS! TRUTH!! REALity!! Most of it is NONSENSE- PSEUDO-THEORETICAL BULLSHIT Coming from men playing god. There IS a HIGH POWER!! A CREATOR!! Rather he/she/it is a “fairy” or not...I don’t know and you may not believe in “fairies” but you DAMN SURE beLIEve in fairytales!! Good day

[@Jessica-BornAgain]

Perry Ellis no thanks!

[@graagraes]

"Where's that son?" Always kills me

[@markabboud8564]

I’m a movie nerd, and this is one of the few Classics that slipped through the cracks and I’ve never seen. I want to watch this movie really bad.

[@donsryche1]

Mark Abboud The whole movie came up on my feed when I watched this scene. I’m gonna watch later...

[@markabboud8564]

donsryche1 Did you ever watch the whole thing? What did you think if so?

[@donsryche1]

Mark Abboud Oh man. I gotta admit I kinda forgot about it. I’m still working despite our current situation. As soon as I can I’ll check it out and let ya know though...

[@markabboud8564]

donsryche1 I’m happy to hear you’re still working during all this. I will attempt to do the same. If I wind up watching it, i will also let you know how it is.

[@lydiazuleta2850]

did you do it?

[@dasbakon]

I never wanted this film to end...

[@Screenager48]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the first podcast

[@justiniani3585]

There used to be tons of radio shows before that movie on which the podcast layout was based

[@SankofaNYC]

I really appreciated this ending of the movie... It left me with questions..

[@halkitchen2080]

Wallace's cab ride home is one of my favourite moments in all of cinema

[@thisisyaren]

why?

[@xuanzheng1831]

It might be unrelated but in the movie ladybird (kind of a silly comparison in know) in the end she wrote to her mom about her experience of driving across Sacramento, the town she grew up for the first time, and how everything looked different. The gas station, the shops, the bridge that she had crossed on a thousand times felt different. It was if she saw them for the first time. The moral of the story is probably about how the convenience we experienced daily slow changed our relationships to our surroundings. It is sort of cliche but very true from own experience. For the most part I stopped living in the world but rather in my own reality. I don’t intend to preach on the cliche notion of living the moment, because I think the whole is bigger and everyone’s experience is a little different. I felt like what Wallace felt on his home could be one interpretation of such experiences. If i am going write something about this one day I will it a nostalgia for the present.

[@patrickg3796]

And I told her all about my dinner with Andre

[@renzo6490]

There is no solid ground. When you are alone, you no longer have any distractions. That's why gurus go to mountain tops and prophets wander out into the desert. It's why Mahler wrote. Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen : I am lost to the world With which I used to waste much time; It has for so long known nothing of me, It may well believe that I am dead. Nor am I at all concerned If it should think that I am dead. Nor can I deny it, For truly I am dead to the world. I am dead to the world’s tumult And rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love, in my song!

[@Tmelbz]

I'm too stoned for this.

[@couldntbeotherwise]

You still stoned ?

[@kaliyuga1476]

@@couldntbeotherwisebest way to watch this film

[@Gadfly333]

This movie made me weep..

[@rg9810]

Good touch with the emergency sirens going off as soon as the topic of death occurs.

[@JosephTheAustin]

Did anyone else notice the ambulance in the back ground just as they were talking about coming to terms with mortality? 100% guaranteed that was intentional. After all, that sound may make some of us think about mortality. Brilliant.

[@Bulltardwin]

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing" - Bukowski.

[@user-gv5fh7yb7f]

"The Matrix", 18 years earlier (sans guns).

[@Barry_the_dog]

I have found that you can tell a lot about a person using this movie as a gauge. What ones reaction and level of understanding to this film are, if they “get it” or not, and to the level of how much they “get it”. It really says and reveals a lot about a person.

[@nimbusflamel8844]

Looks at my mother

[@lifecloud2]

This is one of my favorite films.

[@scott19087]

Pretentious much

[@snecko]

@@nimbusflamel8844 There is no mother

[@SoundBoss5150]

@@scott19087Right. Because you don’t have a smug sense of superiority about anything

[@LittleMushroomGuy]

A great view on Heidegger and Kierkegaard, an magnicifect movie

[@Ninjamohawk]

This movie is so incredible

[@lifecloud2]

The presence of the waiter there ... so removed and "waiterly" ... linked to their conversation here and reminded me of Sartre's waiter image.

[@renzo6490]

La petite mort ("the little death") is an expression that means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death." Wikipedia

[@laadidaouiomar1078]

I'm totally speechless 💕💕💕

[@remy9232]

“Where’s that son?”

[@JonathanPoto]

I think the “lifting you” means your casket being lifted and “then he’s gone” means his own death which is to say what do these relationships mean when we each get equally turned into ghosts without grounding to anything by death. Painful shit.

[@followingtheroe1952]

I related to being afraid of going to sleep

[@EkajArmstro]

"I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death" - Nas

[@al_helperin]

Absolutely beautiful ending

[@PixelatedFlu]

Timeless

[@tonystyles21]

Inconceivable

[@_12welve]

I don't know if this a movie, or a conversation about the unknown that's happening right before us

[@fewhavestrength]

Satie absolute beautiful

[@caramason56]

Powerful 😊👍

[@Onkarr]

I see this guy Andre, but I hear Terrance McKenna

[@j.dragon651]

Your purpose is to be a sense organ for the creation.

[@iimanuella]

What is the name of the score played in this?

[@RRC_Cinema]

Erik Satie Gymnopedie 1

[@babbisp1]

0:10 - 0:27

[@racccongenocide]

weird i heard of this from some book

[@princeknight4773]

Tit(le)s or gtfo...

[@Deola99]

Weird, I heard of this from Community

[@j.dragon651]

my wife turned me on to this not long after it came out.

[@matthewstoneback9]

Ohhhh, why oh why wasn't I born a New Yorker?😢

[@ora22011]

1:03

[@mechlabs0302]

I always liked the bit about the electric blanket. Just saying

[@graagraes]

When you sit with your buddy at the kebab place after a night out ^^

[@georgerichardson7728]

A movie that goes right over the heads of the idiots in cinemas today, were it to be shown, they'd rather have green screen, explosions and super heroes.

[@katevalentine7075]

One of those movies I like but gives me a migrane

[@BelsPR]

Where is that son?,,,,

[@PanfluteExpedition_]

What would you reckon those last few lines meant?

[@BelsPR]

@@PanfluteExpedition_ im sorry to ask, wich one specificilly0

[@CrazyLegsPatton]

Huh?! What?!

[@Kevitivity]

You just might find this interesting - if you have no purpose in your life.

[@severusrogue259]

There's no logic in your statement

[@peach1187]

and oonly one true purpose in your "life" and that has nothing to do with who or what you think it is..your purpose is to LIVE buddy

[@estebansteverincon7117]

What is the 'purpose' of *eventually dying?*

[@dustinblack2006]

Bad take away from this film... The movie is trying to portray the positives, but mostly negatives of two radically different world views. One is too eccentric and borderline paranoid (Andre) and the other is too complacent (Wallace). In the beginning, we find out Wallace is struggling financially, and is unhappy. And later in the film we figure out the same about Andre. It's best to find a middle ground between the two.

[@markcooperartcomofficial]

Best because it makes you comfortable?

[@Profile.4]

Blah blah blah

[@nicholaschavez5598]

Ahh yes 🧐

[@Profile.4]

Jk I cried

[@DaWoWzer]

why does this feel like it was written by a pseudo intellectual redditor?

[@GalacticCobalt]

I've come to see that the experiences they share over dinner build the credibility for what they say ultimately here

[@edeliteedelite1961]

This movie does not fully side with either character. See how you find everything "cringe" when it goes deeper than sarcasm or sexuality.

[@jetrexdesign]

Redditors devalued deep conversation by mimicking it in the hopes of sounding intellectual. This movie is actually intellectual and shows multiple perspectives in conversation, but years of wannabes trying to become these guys has essentially devalued it, in the same way that Psycho isn't scary anymore because people copied it a hundred times.