Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name performers, and although local bands tried to fill the time on a small secondary stage, fans were often waiting with not much to do or see--and that is if you were lucky enough to see to begin with. City Hall Plaza is definitely not the ideal location for an event of this magnitude. The main stage was set up in front of the old City hall, and fans filled in the layers of steps that descend to the building and around the stage. That means the stage was down below in a pit, and fans were left...
Many fans were wondering why the festival had been moved from Boston Common where it had been held last year. The Common provided the ideal location because it held more people comfortably, and the stage was elevated above the ground allowing the audience to just raise their heads to watch...
...furnish the true motors of devotion and keepers of the flame, "ordained monks and nuns, supported in vows of celibacy and poverty, divorced from everyday life and supported by a community of lay members." Even if the majority of American Buddhism seems to be fleeing such an ideal, he remains convinced that especially within the Tibetan tradition there exists a promising community, and individuals "slowly coming closer and closer to the institutional breakthrough, who could live that way with a lifelong...
...young Austrian, his country's most revered athlete, climbs mountains to escape from himself. Leaving his wife, he treks to a remote kingdom to find a new truth. An ideal Aryan who befriends a boy of the yellow race, he dumps Hitler for the Dalai Lama. A man bred on competition, he becomes a missionary for peace and enlightenment. Sounds as though there's a movie in Heinrich Harrer's life...
...nothing in common with typical movie violence. Wenders is thinking on a larger, more philosophical scale, which is exactly what he wants the audience to do. Violence, as far as this film is concerned, represents all of the perversions in modern life, everything that pushes us farther from an ideal and harmonious existence. In his convoluted screenplay Wenders takes aim at human greed and the scary implications of having too much technology...