I believe we do live in a world that is meaningful but not really sure about the makes sense part. If the world weren’t meaningful, then what would be the point of living? Everything we would say or do would be meaningless, no possibility to connect with others or just share own thoughts, feelings and ideas. Like how Tommy’s girlfriend was like “ If nothing matters, how can I matter?” because how can one truly matter if everything is supposed to be meaningless. Or when Tommy said, “Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing left to lose.” I remember we were having a small discussion of how if the world was truly meaningless that we wouldn’t even bother to go to school or work because like Tommy said what do we have to lose. But we do because we believe to world is meaningful, that in school or work we are able to connect with others and these connection wouldn’t happen if we were really “ trapped in a dark room with no windows.” Caterine in this movie was like Banach; both believed that the world was meaningless. Part I found really funny in the movie was when after reading Caterine’s book Tommy’s girlfriend and daughter leave him but he tries to explain it to his like 5 year old daughter and screams “ always keep asking questions.” or something like that. But at the same time it was kind of sad because the book and this idea of the world being meaningless made him lose his family.
The world I think is meaningful because to me, people connecting at least for me feels real and if the world didn’t hold any meaning then life would be pointless. I like Bernard’s idea of the blanket and how “Everything is the same, even if it’s different.” because it shows we are same in the sense we all are somehow connected. I think it’s cool, even Caterine showed this was true because then she wouldn’t have found the connection between Albert and his door man; “He was orphaned by civil war, you were orphaned by indifference.” she told him. And if she believes everything is meaningless then why did she believe in connections?? Another great quote Bernard said was “Everything is connected and everything matters! Every atom of your body has been forged in the furnace of the sun, isn’t that cool?” We even have connections scientifically but at the same time there are differences between each other. Which I think are what the tiny cracks stood for but those cracks had tiny connections and they had tiny cracks as well and so on.
But at the same time I do not say that it always makes sense, sometimes there are questions that really can’t have an exact answer. Even Bernard and his wife couldn’t answer Brad’s question “ How can I not be myself.” Or can you really answer what the meaning of life is? No because everyone will have their own idea or thoughts but never an actual answer. But I believe we each find the answers to what doesn’t make sense to us with our own life experiences, thought, views, values, etc.
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