All Illusions Must Be Broken (2024)

All-Illusions-Must-Be-Broken-(2024)
All Illusions Must Be Broken (2024)

Does the thought of dying ever trouble you?” asks the main doll in the script of the most popular movie of the year ‘Barbie’ directed by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. In their plot, there is a stuffed Mattel employee, Gloria, who in turn dreams at work and sketches a doll that is uniquely made. This doll called ‘Thoughts of Impending Death Barbie’ infects The Barbie World with fear of death. This doll marks the beginning of a classic doll’s transformation from a plastic toy to a strong independent woman.

I’m not a dreamer but the first is something I wrote while in a low state of excitation for an X post, the other day I was thinking of how the film Barbie contains noticeable similarities to the book I read 50 years ago. The book that won a Pulitzer Prize about the true stories of Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death published in 1974. 

For those who have yet understood Becker’s approach to human beings, there is something of it that, in either Becker’s or Becker’s image, needs some dying: the main idea is tinged with the suspicion to focus on the thought of death “Death” which is the biological problem that every one of us has to reckon with: fortunately and unfortunately death is forever. So, many people acquire kinds of fads, fashions, or other things that are shoved to them by society and these societal practices and tips prevent them from having to eventually face the fact of death. 

Dunn not only drew the direct line of interconnections between “Barbie” and Becker but also wanted to tell me that together with her and the life partner and co-director, Jef Sewell, they have recently finished work on a feature documentary called “All Illusions Must Be Broken” This film will have its world premiere on January 10, in the Palm Springs Film Festival in the section of True Stories.

Becker’s Life, based on his book called Illusions, focuses on the world oppressed of their rights and the message that needs to be sent out. Eventually, I was talking on the phone with Dunn and Sewell, the filmmakers currently residing in eastern Tennessee together with their seven children. Sewell happily shared with us that Becker’s link to Barbie is indeed a fact. You have to understand that Noah Baumbach’s last cut “White Noise” was also about Becker, am I right?

Yes, “Noise” by the author Don DeLillo also gives due to Becker’s work Death which was out a decade before this novel was. And yes, there is a devoted student at Becker’s Production, Inc. in Sewell, who seems to have already done his work and which Baumbach took to cinema in 2022 with Gerwig and Adam Driver as the stars. 

After all, it has already been established how the shift from the ostentatious portrayal of Barbie to Becker’s unnaturally violent and extremely disturbing human creeps in Death is only a few seconds away. We then began thinking, what did this couple intend to achieve by shooting a documentary around Becker’s practice and how would today’s audience respond to his probably controversial ideas?

The couple’s third feature documentary that is executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick titled “All Illusions Must Be Broken” which won them the SXSW and Nashville Fest awards for the SXSW 2016 ‘Look & See: Wendell Berry’ featuring well-known poet Wendell Berry. Additionally, they won the Indie Spirit Awards for their earlier movie about the environment titled ‘The Unforeseen’ which was released in 2007. 

Looking back, those who hold a deep appreciation for the concept of ‘Illusions’ and the ideas proposed should also try to address the working of social norms that are plagued with aggression, barbarous war, and violence against humanity. The couple provided further insight into how their original goal of a documentary on “the denaturing of children” as stated by Dunn became broader than where Becker’s developed eco-social aspects worth being addressed.

Both Dunn and Sewell started to realize that there are parts of humanity’s larger, more complex history that we need to tell but can only be understood by people through Becker’s work exacerbating the numerous existential challenges humanity aims to solve. In the film, Dunn and Sewell have a strong focus on the Dialogue that Becker had with a young Psychology Today reporter Sam Keen, nearly fifty years back. This episode in history the visit that Becker paid in 1973 while lying on his death assumes great significance in ‘Illusions’.

How, Kin explains Becker who seems baffled by his portrayal of man as bleak: “If I emphasize the horror, it is only because I confront the smiling robots.” This is but a part of Becker’s rather messianic pursuits. Dunn and Sewell seem to disregard Becker’s message and the words Representatives of cold truths.

Sewell perceives these “Illusions” as regards them “as a conversation,” it is true, however, it is a rather interesting conversation that invites some serious mental effort. He elaborates further “It’s simply an amateurish handmade film that tries to explain and update Becker’s contentious ideas. Which are not simple,” the filmmaker acknowledges. “The first part of the film starts with ‘But why would you recommend Becker?,’ his reply is probably rather blunt ‘I probably wouldn’t. One cannot read Becker and not have to deal with her dark side! Do you want this or not?!

“Actually,” Dunn says, “Nostalgia surfaced concerning a childhood fantasy placing me in the role of my current profession.” She recollects her truth-seeking quest, somewhat paradoxically allying herself with a filmmaking tradition “I’ll be an eye-witness, I’ll tell the unjust and have my pictures speak for themselves.” But with age, that theory evolves.” 

But then evaluates Dunn as having a deeper disposition towards people Becker is more than just Becker is more due to a time-past ennoblement, and she recalls part of the film “That was with me during such dark periods and she suffers a lot. Becker offers some great consolation. While the reality may sting, as they say, “the euphoric feeling that comes after is greater than the pain,” it does make sense. 

Dunn seconds Sewell’s point of view that ‘Illusions’ should be regarded as an endeavor to deliver Becker’s thoughts softly and more personally, as Dunn claims, the film, with which Dunn says, “I began During the same period, we had been thinking about the idea that man is a part of nature overshadowed by culture.

“To start off, it was about stepping back and thinking about one’s little ones, the amount of exposure the kids get to screens such as televisions and tablets on a daily basis, and what damage that kind of exposure would do to them. The work of Richard Louv in “Last Child in the Woods,” talks about the ‘nature deficit disorder’ schools us greatly. We have generations that are completely alienated from what is around them every now and then. ”

However, more than for the film itself, Malik and Redford enrolled very much for their film project in consideration of Becker’s thematically übermensch searching for the unconscious while Dunn credits Becker’s guesses to Malick’s intuitions that the pair should broaden their search scope for the “ideas” that lay behind the film. “Terry has always maintained, It’s not about the facts, only. Think the making forces of the fact’. And when one is to pose a query ‘What humanity is doing in these social formations, which are taut in doing only one thing, avoiding reality in its outward manifestation? ‘ that is when Becker comes in the picture.”

As for the contemporary time, he is worried about the present and what fears Digest all these tendencies are being discussed by Digest to describe to Becker about human nature possibilities. “I have been rather shocked by Becker’s understanding of Sam Keen especially after the events of Gaza,” says Sewell, “who had said of Keen ‘There is, always, someone who is waiting to be told that he or she is somebody.’ 

He Remains Consistent with their Activities this way every human Misery can be viewed as an equally justifiable annihilation of the humanity of a certain man disqualifying every act of human debauchery. Of course, scapegoating has that very mechanism in action. In connection with what Miller said ‘Every man has his Jew ’There should always be such a person whose head you can use to hit other people. 

Accepting this interpretation, as Sewell says, “Illusions” “assists in preparing a new audience for Becker”, asking us to believe that last December was the mid-anniversary of the book Denial of Death and the author has won the Pulitzer Lion Prize for 50 years.  As if to remove any lingering doubts about the complete surrender of that individual, Sewell adds, “About half away from the center of this movie, Laura was seen to be pregnant at 45 and our youngest was 5 already. It was completely light. We named the child Becker.” 

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