230 Being There

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

The 1979 film Being There, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvin Douglas and Jack Warden is an odd, quirky, funny and surprising film about a, not very bright, gardener who ends up friend to the richest man in the world and advisor to the President of the United States. Is it a religious parable, a condemnation of the rich, a statement about the human race's fundamental foolishness or simply a really funny movie?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Steve.
0:03.8	In 1979, my parents took me to Mill Valley to see a movie called Being There.
0:10.2	Looking back at it, I now wonder what my parents were thinking.
0:13.6	I mean, I don't mean to say this was irresponsible parenting.
0:17.9	It's not like they took me to jaws or the exorcist.
0:21.0	But did my parents know what kind of movie this was?
0:25.2	I mean, I just wonder what they thought their 11-year-old son would get
0:30.2	out of this odd, quirky, truly ambiguous fable about an innocent gardener
0:36.7	with the mind of a child who suddenly becomes an advisor to the president,
0:40.9	the best friend of the richest man in the world,
0:43.9	and perhaps in the future, his replacement.
0:48.0	And not just the head of his company, but with his wife and maybe even more.
0:54.7	I mean, this is a weird movie.
0:57.6	And one, I certainly wouldn't expect my son to enjoy,
1:01.4	and he's only a year younger than I was when I saw it.
1:05.0	But the truth is, I loved it.
1:08.5	I watched this movie over and over again on TV.
1:13.3	What I don't know, and what I wish I could find out,
1:16.2	is what exactly did my 11-year-old brain get from this film?
1:21.9	Did I understand the points that it was making about
1:25.5	society, politics, and the flawed tools we use to assess the people that we meet?
1:32.7	Did I see the film as an attack on privilege or religion?
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