spent 30 seconds trying to figure out why sound was coming out of my computer when my speakers were off, when i realise i had plugged the line out to the wrong thing and the sound came from my laptop speakers. which was rather stupid.
just watched memento again today. it's really really different when you know the ending, even though i kinda forgot the details. i was just trying to notice any sort of clue, but apart from just suggestions, the movie doesn't offer that much in the way of hints. though i was reading up on wikipedia how there were many intentional inconsistencies in the film which were create to screw around with the audience's mind. the movie actually looks very cheap this time. i'm not sure whether it's just the film stock, or whether it was just bad weather, but the lighting of the film just felt bad. like it didn't really convey any kind of emotion. actually, the entire thing felt really flat in terms of presentation. but i suppose the whole point of it was the amazing narrative, which i suppose was, and probably is still, extremely innovative. it's such a simple concept. you film a movie, then you chop it up and play most of it backwards. i don't think it's even actually that complicated, the whole script. it was just very deft editing to ensure that the pace of the movie matched leonard's (the main character) condition. a lot of stories rely on the effective revealing of things to get to the big twist, and this essentially traces the events backwards to the source, which happens to reveal the twist. the final 3 minutes were actually rather guilty of being just a plot explosion. teddy's character could have been an alien and the rest of the movie would have been the same. which is a little disappointing given how smart the whole concept was. but still, it's a great story and a very innovative film. highly recommended. i'm just wondering how christopher nolan went from directing movies like this to doing batman begins.
and with the movie review over, the point: i realise that it is futile thinking that people will change to become who you want them to be. i realise how i always make friends with people based on a warped sense of their potential. but then a lot of times, people i meet end up making really horrible decisions (well, what i consider to be at least) and it hurts me too much to be healthy. and i don't know which is worse, my assumptions or my disappointment that they turned out to be far from the truth. and who am i to say which decisions are good or bad? fundementally, i have a very idealistic picture of a lot of things in life which i would then project upon people hoping they somehow fit into those moulds. wait, i take part of that back. most times it's not even as if i want people to be perfect. i just want them to be more acceptable to me, which makes it so very selfish. okay, this is become extremely rambly. so long story short, i want to be able to accept people for who they are, and decide whether i like them or not based on that knowledge, not do it backwards by choosing to like them first then to decide whether they are worth liking. there.
in other news, studying for finals is futile when the year is coming to an end and all you really want to do is relax with the people you might never really be with again.
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