#determinsim

Did you choose to read this... or was it inevitable?

🧬 From neuroscience labs to ancient philosophy halls, the question remains:

Do we really have free will? Or are we just passengers in a causally determined world?

Free Will and Free Won’t

Do we have free will? Modern materialists say, no. This is what I learned watching an episode in a series on science that was hosted by Stephen Hawking on Public Broadcast Television.

Hawking explained the experiments that informed this view. In the experiment, the subjects were told to choose to push a button and to note the time on the clock at which the decision was made. At the same time,…

Charlie Countryman (2013) by Fredrik Bond

The success of a man's journey is defined by? A good question indeed. Yet a question that the film Charlie Countryman seems to define to be love itself. The journey of a man can be defined as a success when true love has been found.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It was surreal yet grounded somewhere tangible. Tightly wound together yet also strikingly free. In this film is what I think to be Shia Labeouf's most impressive performance to date. There's a tender spaciousness to his performance here that gives the viewer a distance from his losses that is also actually all encompassing at the same exact time. This film was also my introduction to the vicious acting chops of Mads Mikkelsen who makes his portrayal as the brutal ex lover of Evan Rachel Wood's character frightfully believable. He delivers his lines with a haunting chill that makes you truly fear for Labeouf's character whenever they are locked in the same frame.

Evan Rachel Wood's character of Gabi Ibanescu and her performance makes the love both men feel for her believable. She has a style and as well as a tortured grace to her which is captivating to see unfold as we learn about her past and her present to see them prepare to collide. There was times when I was lost in her physical beauty as well her spiritual beauty and they both oozed from the screen and into me as I ingested every single one of her accented words.