Who blew up the house?
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WarpedRecord — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 11:51 AM)
That would be Jerry Rubin, and though he sold out in the '80s like so many hippies and yippies did, he died doing the ultimate act of nonconformity: He was hit by a car while jaywalking. Some principles are just not worth fighting for, and some laws are good.
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creaturefeeture — 14 years ago(November 07, 2011 03:41 PM)
I just saw the film as very metaphorical. The explosion was a metaphor for the turmoil inside of her at that moment. She saw how her society valued trivial materialistic things like a plane over a human life, she saw how the people she was working for were selling a way of life that wasn't living, just consuming empty trivial things, and she was enraged.
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daniel_lalla — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 12:22 PM)
Not so metaphorical - I find it explicitly calls out shallow American society, the destruction of the planet and resources for money, the Vietnam war and counter culture protests. I'm not sure the house blows up. After the music cuts, she calmly drives away and it's silent. I think it's imagined "ideal". And if America doesn't 'get' the film, it makes the point even more. I'd say the election of Trump is just a modern day example of ignorance and American greed, no matter the consequences.
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nextwooden — 14 years ago(December 16, 2011 12:59 AM)
This is who blew up the house:
http://www.imdb.com/board/20566729/
Duh!
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Red_Barn — 13 years ago(June 16, 2012 02:45 PM)
The hotel/house was full of people wanting to exploit the planet, people who were the symbol of the mindset that puts property as more important than a human life. So in her mind, she blew it up. The film is named after an incredibly beautiful natural place, a place that the people in the hotel want to exploit for money. "They should build a drive-in here".
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jmillerdp — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 12:54 AM)
To quote Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok of SCTV's "Farm Film Report and Celebrity Blow Up": "Woooo! That blow'd up good!" "Yeah, blow'd up real good!"
I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! [slurp!] I DRINK IT UP! - Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood -
elephuntingun — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 05:21 PM)
I thought nobody blew up the house.
It looked like she was imagining it.
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