
Eric Adler on The Big Lebowski
The New Thinkery
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The Nihilistic Tumbleweed
Even the movie itself is nihilist, right? The tumbleweed, it begins with this sort of weird, like, you're just blowing in the wind. So as part of what the movie is doing then, trying to show that actually nobody can consistently hold on to this nihilist. And maybe only the film, not King David, the second most famous, it would we know.
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