06-19-2023, 08:24 PM
(06-19-2023, 11:21 AM)Hamamelis Wrote: As an aside, that whole explanation around the "upgraded" psychology of Walter was really weak - how would David be "too human" compared to Walter? If anything, David made people nervous because he was clearly inhuman. Maybe this was implied in the movie, but the way I heard it, it sounded completely wrong.I find Walter interesting, as a superior (for humanity) successor to David who is more tame. I think that's a kind of clever point that the less human one sounds warmer. David isn't cold, detached, and cruel because he's simple. It's because he's complex, rich in character, however you'd like to put it. Walter is David turned into a Golden Retriever.
Then we get back to the poetry mistake, again I think that might actually be Walter's spiritual inferiority giving him a kind of edge. The impression I got from that sequence is that David is human enough to be conceited and hubristic. To get so caught up in grandiosity and identification that he makes mistakes. It's been a while and I haven't looked closely over all the symbols and implications throughout the movie, there might be more than that. Something deeper implied in the poets and David's error. If anybody here knows their poetry and has thoughts on that I'd be very interested in hearing.