MotW: Seven

Since I suggested this one I guess I'm forced to give my personal official rating.

This is one is a solid 9.1/10

I have to say just because I rate a movie very high it doesn't mean it is in my top list.

I have movies in my personal favorite top list that I don't rate very high, but are still some of my favorite movies.

This one is just an excellent movie worth owning at least on 5.1. I have the original Blu-Ray copy, but I would get it on 4K HDR if I see it in the wild because it is that good.

Which reminds me that considering how much I like Kevin Spacey stuff it is a capital sin that I still haven't seen House Of Cards.

If I remember correctly House Of Cards was the very first original Netflix show when their streaming service started to become popular.

That's when all of us loyal subscribers that have been there since the beginning, when it was just a DVD mail-in service, made the switch from physical to digital.

Se7en is simply the way society works. A mastermind agenda where everyone is taken for a ride, and have to make tough decisions of whether to play along, or do your own thing.

I do a balance of both because it is necessary, but you don't want to give in entirely or you will lose your identity.

I haven't read The Divine Comedy since 9th grade I believe, but Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise are some of the most mentally visually stimulating books ever written. Dante is a boss!

Well, in plain English stimulating does not equal to sexual satisfaction. I was obviously referring to how realistic those images look when you visualize it while reading the books. I'm talking about to the clarity of the experience, almost as if it was a virtual experience inside your mind.

Although considering how I can easily get contextualized because the way I normally talk I can see why someone could assume I was referring to sexual stimulus, but I was not, I was purely referring to the visual mental intensity of the books.

Reading The Divine Comedy engages your brain in ways only the dramatic contrast of those scenes can.

I guess it is easy to say Salvador Dalí is visually stimulating because it is clearly provoking, but when we refer to writing as visually stimulating it can be a little more tricky to explain if you haven't experience it yourself.

In other words something can be horrendous and unappealing, almost traumatic, but that shock value is visually stimulating, and that's what draws you.

Even in something as modern like video games, when people play Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Echo Night, Kuon, Siren, The Evil Within, Haunting Ground, Clock Tower, Eternal Darkness, Bloodborne, Dead Rising, Dark Souls, Dino Crisis, Demon's Souls, even Splatterhouse and Castlevania, it is in many ways because of that appeal.

It is stimulating to your brain, that's what engagement is all about, and it is not related to sexual satisfaction, it is just a form of art that Alighieri definitely mastered in his writing.

In real life his Beatrice married someone else, and he lost his chance to be with her in that particular incarnation. To me it feels that's why his imagination was so vivid. The amount of pain actual reality provoked in him is what made him elaborate a parallel world in his mind that matched the level of shocking clarity of the real world to escape, and that's how we got those books.

That level of inspiration is in essence spiritual in nature considering it is composed purely in the abstract. Thought provoking material like this is timeless for that exact reason, and it is the reason why it will keep inspiring generations to come, just clarifying, come, not cum.

I have to say that I do appreciate the confusion because it allowed me to further clarify what I was referring to.

That's a perfect example scipioafricanus. Paradise Lost to me feels so canon in actual history that it doesn't matter how much fantastic it may appear, the allegorical significance of that book is on itself descriptive of objective reality at that point, but I understand that's a leap of faith that only makes sense logically in a poetic sense, like pretty much all epics do.