Does anyone know if the title has anything to do with the Paul Simon song "All Around The World or The Myth of Fingerpri
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chillman4130 — 21 years ago(June 12, 2004 10:47 AM)
Does anyone know if the title has anything to do with the Paul Simon song "All Around The World or The Myth of Fingerprints" from his Graceland album? I have not seen the film, I just ran across it here. Perhaps "The Myth of Fingerprints" is a commonly used phrase and I have just never heard it before?
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traceys22 — 21 years ago(November 29, 2004 05:05 PM)
"The Myth of Fingerprints" comes from the notion that every fingerprint, like a snowflake, is unique (no two are alike). I haven't seen the movie yet, but I hope this fit in somewhere with the movie's theme.
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TemporaryOne — 21 years ago(December 22, 2004 08:35 AM)
Here is a quote from the director:
About the title, Freundlich remarks,
It's about identity and how it's not a constant the way a fingerprint is. People change and you might not always be able to find them by examining just one mark they make in their life - you might have to grow with them and change with them and accept how they change in order to continually find them to be someone you know.
I mean is there actually something that is a core to your identity, like your family, your childhood? Are those things always defining you or are you constantly changing, moving away from them? I guess both.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/myth/production.html -
blondemusicpuffin — 21 years ago(December 31, 2004 10:39 PM)
The Myth of Fingerprints is from Paul Simon's album Graceland, and I'm a bit disgruntled to see that Sean Gallagher the featured reviewer notes the title came from a Simon and Garfunkle song. Um, get with it, Sean.
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cenobitetx — 20 years ago(January 15, 2006 09:28 AM)
The closest thing I can think of a connection of title to story is that the family is a connection of unique individuals, as the siblings are shown to be very different, and often unconnected people. Personally, I thought the title a bit pretentious and not adquately discriptive my own self.
TemporaryOne