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Jun. 2nd, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyYou can harangue me if you want, I don't really care.
I thought Amores Perros was overlong, frequently dull, and then surprisingly moving. It was... it was a film that would make an excellent film studies class. I liked the central conceit, but I thought it could have been done better.
My problem mostly lies in the fact that I could see what was being done. Very obvious parallels, visual comparisons, that sort of thing. To me, story is first. Possibly because I'm so bad at it and try to disguise that with writing tricks and good characterisation. I have nothing against appreciating things for the aesthetics, I have nothing against experimentation. I just think that if I can see the tricks, there's something going wrong. Spoils it.
Like stage magic.
*shrugs*
This probably says more about me than it doesn't. Like: I've never done a media studies class. Like: I gave up English Literature because it was spoiling the stories for me. (And damn, did I regret that). Like: I'm not as bright as I perhaps should be, as academically inclined as I'd like to be, as deep as it's admirable to be.
No, I don't really have a comment on that.
I'm going to bed.
I thought Amores Perros was overlong, frequently dull, and then surprisingly moving. It was... it was a film that would make an excellent film studies class. I liked the central conceit, but I thought it could have been done better.
My problem mostly lies in the fact that I could see what was being done. Very obvious parallels, visual comparisons, that sort of thing. To me, story is first. Possibly because I'm so bad at it and try to disguise that with writing tricks and good characterisation. I have nothing against appreciating things for the aesthetics, I have nothing against experimentation. I just think that if I can see the tricks, there's something going wrong. Spoils it.
Like stage magic.
*shrugs*
This probably says more about me than it doesn't. Like: I've never done a media studies class. Like: I gave up English Literature because it was spoiling the stories for me. (And damn, did I regret that). Like: I'm not as bright as I perhaps should be, as academically inclined as I'd like to be, as deep as it's admirable to be.
No, I don't really have a comment on that.
I'm going to bed.
