Boredom in "The Trotsky"

An interesting minor theme of Jacob Tierney's 2009 film "The Trotsky" is the defense of boredom as against apathy. In the film. Leon argues that boredom, unlike apathy, isn't a state of disengagement with the world, but a state of potential, a precursor to engagement. In this, he seems to be drawing on Walter Benjamin's argument in The Arcades Project, that "We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for.... Boredom is the threshold to great deeds."

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[Jabberwocky010]

That was a great movie