Do our lives tell a story? | Sophie Fiennes, David Hare, Janne Teller
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Importance of a Good Ending
Most people during these series are screaming for an ending, they want an ending because they want a sense of conclusion. The only choice about the ending that I like is please let it not be binary. In Casablanca Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman had no idea which way it was going to end. They discussed at great length how it would go before coming up with 'the most magnificent cheat in film history' Alexander McKendrick: "I've got a very good beginning but I haven't yet got the end"
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