Pretension
Feb. 15th, 2005 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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tareija's post on artsy pretension in relation to Fight Club, the following came to mind:
Sometimes my brain reminds me of one of those "artsy" movies... the ones with fancy shots through fans and doorways, long periods without dialogue, where characters just sit and look at each other, and no mood-setting music. Think Monster's Ball and most Canadian dramas.
They remind me of my brain because they always seem like they are supposed to be full of bigger meanings, deep insights into the world and the poor miserable people who populate it. But even as you are watching the film, supposedly watching the creation of these insights, you have to wonder if the whole thing is really just self-indulgent, overblown, over-thought, and, in the end, meaningless.
And both my brain and the artsy movies seem to have a scary superficial resemblance to most perfume commercials.
tareija's post on artsy pretension in relation to Fight Club, the following came to mind:Sometimes my brain reminds me of one of those "artsy" movies... the ones with fancy shots through fans and doorways, long periods without dialogue, where characters just sit and look at each other, and no mood-setting music. Think Monster's Ball and most Canadian dramas.
They remind me of my brain because they always seem like they are supposed to be full of bigger meanings, deep insights into the world and the poor miserable people who populate it. But even as you are watching the film, supposedly watching the creation of these insights, you have to wonder if the whole thing is really just self-indulgent, overblown, over-thought, and, in the end, meaningless.
And both my brain and the artsy movies seem to have a scary superficial resemblance to most perfume commercials.
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Re: pretension
Date: 2005-02-17 06:44 pm (UTC)Wow, I'm quotable! Awesome! Thanks hon!