Artistic Persp. Final

The Meaning of life has been looked at in many different ways through out life. Whether it be through philosophy, through breaking it down and through religion. One main part of truly understanding the meaning of life and having a much better outlook on someone else's perspective is ART. Art comes in various forms, music, literature, media, and so many other pieces. It is a big and easy way of expressing oneself and their thoughts and beliefs on the meaning of life. Music is usually the most easy for understanding thoughts because the artist (musician) is more or less just blurting it out at you. The lyrics maybe sometimes a little confusing and not absolutely the meaning of life, but usually if you take time to read and try to interpret the meaning, you can see the MOL through the artisist's eyes. Artists want this! They want you to hear them (literally or not) and for you to understand their veiws. It is also visible in the media to see what a director or writer believes is the meaning of life. Maybe in a movie, on television, or even in video games. Artists show through the big screen or even through your small computer screen. A lot of people do not atually know and undestand what they are watching or considering could and probably is the directors meaning of life. Art is all around and misentrpreted. Which is ok sometimes, because the author, director, or cretor like tat sometimes. Maybe the perspective is that you should be confused and not fully understand the Point Of View.
Having to choose a movie that expresses a true meaning of life to me was not so easy. But when I truly thought of what movie would be a real good expample of someone's meaning of life, I came up with THE MATRIX. I truly believe that thi movie as well as the other two really show a confident and meaningful insightful arguement for their thought on the meaning of life. The movie takes place in the present, or atleast it makes you believe it is. After Neo, the protagonist, is filled in by Morpheus, his mentor and savior, about how his whole life is a computer program and that his real body is in the real world and he needs to WAKE UP. So morpheus wakes him and Neo winds up saving all of mankind from the stupid non-sensless robot generation. I think that the director really thought about how his whole life is written for him and that he should fight the system and experience all that he can and while doing that, save others and let them experience all of it too. Who knows, maybe thats how people find true love, Neo sure does.
The MATRIX is a good example of a very meaning of life oriented moveie both because its insightful, but it lets you interpret it for yourself. I really enjoyed it, and it truly helped me to understand differnt points on the meaning of life.
Another movie I think about is FIGHT CLUB, where the nararator NEVER gives his name. He finds a new friend who starts a cult, group, what ever uyou want to call it. But this friend trurns a little evil and leaves him in the dark. It take him until three quarters of the movie to realize that this friend, TYLER DURDEN is not a real person, he is the nararoter in the same body, but he is everything that Nar. cant be and wont be (consiously).
I feel liek the artist of this masterpiece doesnt know who he truly is and that it takes him a while to find something that he would like to be. People arre always trying to be something theyre not and becasue of it, they appear different, but still are that same old hag they used to be.
Every day people ty to hide behind new identities and its stuid because people should be happy with what they are, who they are, and what they do. I find in a lot of songs that they mention "I KNOW YOU BETTER THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF". The artists of these songs must know people that have changed a lot since they first met and they are worried about them because they want them to be "real".
I find it sad, but alot of moveis, songs, and MOST CERTAINLY moives show this. A character that will do anything for people to respect them and think of them as they would want to. In a lot of songs they mention this, but in "BECOME WHAT YOU HATE" by MIDTOWN, they truly discuss how people (a friend in particular) change for no reason, or atleast not one true necessary reason. Midtown says they didnt think their friendship was a fraud, but now, he doesnt even know what it is. They see the WILL IN YOU and see that their friend has become everything they once hated. Its a sad story, but this person they talk of has had a tough time and is unabe to cope with it unless they change their norms to social norms.
They also go into how their future is going to go to crap and nothing good will come from this and that sooner or later, they will see that their new friends are the ones they used to make fun of!

In short, ART CAN APPEAR IN SO MANY WAYS, and its only how YOU interpret it, for it to make sense. An ART piece could be the true meaninig of life for some one, but for anoter person it could mean the opposite and the others will laugh at the "stupid idea" of the meaning of life. It is fun though to see how the AART perspecitves resemble ideas. Especially through songs because they just really TELL YOU THEIR THOUGHTS though lyrics and even the TUNE of their songs!
ART is a great, and maybe one of the best easiest, ways of resembling thoughts on the Meaning Of Life.