The Dude (yusufaytas.com)

In a world of relative abundance, everybody is some version of Oblomov.

The first time I saw the Big Lebowski, I was a very high teenager watching it through the glass of a smoking area. Notably, there was no sound. It was a heck of a way to see the movie for the first time.

Strangely, I expected to see multiple large previous discussions about movies here, yet the largest has only nine replies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1021736

> Almost every male character in The Big Lebowski is, in some way, a failed version of what he thinks he should be.

What a fresh, contrarian take! So corageous.