News: Filmmaker bared his soul, ruined his life

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/magazine/caveh-zahedi-documentary-film.html




In other words, subjecting reality to art doesn’t make it less real or less true. It makes it more real and more true.

That’s the goal of art, she said, her voice catching a little: to tell other people what it feels like to be alive.

“The central trope of all my films, I think, is: ‘You want this. You don’t get it. The thing you get instead is better,’ ” he said. “And that’s the central trope of life.”

Those are few quotes from the story.  Well, it is an advertisement.  I might watch some of his films, maybe even the show, called The Show About the Show.  Maybe.

 Or maybe not.  I might just think about this character, who seems to have traded his success as a filmmaker in for his success as a person.  I mean, being a good filmmaker has destroyed several of his relationships.  So, that might mean he is a bad filmmaker.  I don't know.

But yes, it is thought provoking.  I'm curious to see if he kills himself when the show ends, as he says.  I'd like to hear more from his students.  I'd like to hear more about the author of this piece, so we can measure their objectivity.