To the people concerned about why Wally isn't talking: If you listened earlier in the film, Wally proposed that he liked asking questions and feeling like a detective. He was the one egging Andre on to keep talking.

@h.vendelssohn7114

6 жыл бұрын

...and Wally does actually do a lot of talking in the second half of this great film

@thuscomeguerriero

5 жыл бұрын

Wally isnt seaking because he merely a foil for all the pretentious bull the writer wants to say

i saw it on tv and was transfixed,twenty years later i have started to download old films i once loved ....i still love this one ...more now in fact because i can appreciate the camerawork that heightens the drama , the fact that i know some history to the film which is as fascinating as the film itself ...i'm going to quit my job and go to findhorn lol

i watched this right before i pooped my pants on the set of cougartown

I love that most of the people commenting are actually totally supportive and into it- makes you hopeful for the state of humanity

lol! the next line is Wally laughs uneasily and says "so that was, that was Christmas..!"

My dinner with Andre dinner with Abed.

Until the day you finally open your mind, you will never understand the real message.

@germanikolaas

3 жыл бұрын

What is the real message

And as I fell to the floor, I pooped my pants.

I will never forget my dinner with Andre dinner with Abed

One day I'd like to make My Dinner With Andre 2: The Lost Weekend, or something like that. *lol* j/k, but that dude seems to hallucinate a lot.

Because Andre's parts are more showy, they tend to be the ones people put up on youtube more often. Andre's parts appeal more to the naive viewer who takes his words to be the movie's message, but Wally's parts are just as important. You ought to watch the whole movie, which you can do on youtube now.

@ciceroscarsen8319

11 ай бұрын

Because Wally takes part as a average American, who’s part of the movie is a more humble take compared to Andre. But maybe people don’t look much into Wally’s words because they realize he represents them, in the ideas that the average Joe would live, like enjoying the simple pleasure of a electric blanket. Andre’s stories are listen worthy and something you would want to hear in a real world, but he is in touch in his own way. I’m probably just saying random words but I guess what I’m trying to say is I resonate with Wally for not finding regard for consciousness because that’s not what’s gonna make us happy in our life’s. What’s going to make us happy is simple things, details. Like the ones Andre speaks on his stories, or Wally with being comfortable in times. In the rough moments I’m living in, I appreciate this movies simple ness with the message being that small things, like a conversation, or a imaginative taxi ride are what makes up life, enjoying life not for its beauty, but more for its simplicity. Never examining life is just simply impossible. As Socrates once said “The unexamined life is not worth living”

@Krexel People think this movie is pretentious? Inconceivable!

Community homage to MDWA featuring Pulp Fiction homage FTW

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Cougartown

@TheLogicJunkie Perhaps we speak different languages of expression, in that case.

@TheLogicJunkie There, now that was a more legitimate, critical review. And I do agree with your statement on how the content was not "truly salient;" they merely cover existential topics with depth fit for high school philosophy classes.

@iArsalan arty new yorkers from the 70s talk like this

Were you responding to my comments?

@TheLogicJunkie You make numerous statements that, in most people, would evoke a visceral reaction of distaste for this movie. But you really need to ask yourself why "masculinity" and "contractions" are necessary in any dialogue. Why does it make you uncomfortable? And I believe you have been mistaken; there are numerous moments of directness (i.e. Wallace's counter-points, emotional honesty, etc.). Are you so insecure in your own masculinity that you need it verified by all you engage in?

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I agree. That would be my sole criticism. No one talks like this. People have back and forth, unless one is an alpha and the other a complete follower hanging on his every word; and even then there'd be an occasional "uh huh" or "I see".

I loved this film when I was 20. Now, 25 years later, I feel like it's self-absorbed mental masturbation.

Does the other guy EVER talk? Seems pretty one sided and gets really annoying to hear that guy prattle on and on, without so much as a peep from the other guy.