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Downfall Child Puzzle - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults & Teens - Perfect for Family Game Night & Stress Relief
Downfall Child Puzzle - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults & Teens - Perfect for Family Game Night & Stress Relief

Downfall Child Puzzle - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults & Teens - Perfect for Family Game Night & Stress Relief" (Note: If the original title refers to something other than a puzzle, please provide more context so I can optimize it accurately.)

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Jerry Schatzberg, the acclaimed director of The Panic in Needle Park, Scarecrow, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Honeysuckle Rose and Street Smart, made his directorial debut with this brilliantly innovative and fascinating drama starring screen legend Faye Dunaway (The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, Network, Mommie Dearest). Lou Andreas Sand (Dunaway), a beautiful but disturbed young woman whose life has fallen into a downward spiral including drug use and a nervous breakdown, lives alone at a windswept beach cottage. Fashion photographer turned director Aaron Reinhardt (Barry Primus, Boxcar Bertha) visits the former model and records their conversations, planning to develop her story, a life of delusion and lies, into a film. The stellar cast includes Roy Scheider (Jaws), Viveca Lindfors (Moonfleet) and Barry Morse (The Changeling).Special Features:-NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer and Film Historian/Podcaster Bill Ackerman -NEW Interview with Director Jerry Schatzberg -Alternate Studio-Edit Opening -TRAILERS FROM HELL with Larry Karaszewski -Theatrical Trailer -Optional English Subtitles

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Jerry Schatzberg's first feature film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, depicts on the one hand the story #B of a woman Lou (Faye Dunaway) subjectively describing herself, and on the other hand the story #B of a man Aaron (Barry Primus) recording it on tape, and the two (Stories #A and #B) are woven together to form a single film, and the woman's narrative in Story #B is a disjointed portrayal of time, as her memories are hazy. Because of this, time is portrayed in a disordered manner. That is the basic structure of this story.According to Hannah Arendt (thinker and philosopher), human beings are linguistic beings who only come to self-knowledge through conversation and mutual understanding with others. In other words, it is only in conversation with others that one's ongoing identity is proven, confirmed and questioned. This Puzzle of a Downfall Child shows this in practice.In other words, by interweaving the two (Stories #A and #B), the story is about a woman, Lou, who tells her story and becomes aware of what her experience has been through her conversation with a man. The film proves that human beings are linguistic beings by showing how Lou, after telling her story, comes to an objective awareness of herself through her conversation with the man, and finally regains herself and finds relief.The film is memorable because it depicts the earnestness with which the woman Lou risks the reasons for her existence in the process of self-recognition, while at the same time making the audience a witness to the protagonist's self-discovery. This is what makes the film a good and memorable story.Let's look at the closing scene.Lou checks with Aaron at the end. Through his conversation with Aaron, Lou learns something.We did, Lou. -AaronWhat? -LouHave an affair -AaronWe did? -LouYes -Aaron...I didn’t make it up? -LouNo. But it was very brief -AaronI didn’t make it up, I didn’t. -Lou...Was I any good? -LouOf course, Lou. -AaronWell -Lou...Thank the Lord -LouLou says, " I didn’t make it up, I didn’t. ", which is a very self-recognition. And throughout the conversation, objectively from Alone's eyes, Lou recognises herself as 'good' and the film ends with a big smile.The film teaches that humans are beings who cannot objectively recognise themselves on their own. It says that human beings are beings who can only accept and recognise themselves objectively through conversations and relationships with others, and can be happy as a result. Conversely, human beings can never be truly happy alone. Lou's dialogue at the end of the film conveys this, and her smile proves it.A good film does not assert or state something subjectively, but lets the audience discover it. That is the power of a film to tell us what it is really about, isn't it?Thank you.

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