AceAceBaby wrote:
kalmar wrote:
Watched this last night. It is fantastic as you say, but I'm not really able to describe why.
Hooray! And I know just what you mean.
DBS- I think sometimes there is more to a movie than what is explicitly shown on screen. Everything the camera sees and is kept in editing is there for a reason. The reason may be "it looked cool" or "it's the best we could do" or it could be more meaningful. To pick out specific examples of people overreaching for metaphors, does not mean that no movie has any metaphor, or any deeper meaning. The alternative is to say Animal Farm is a story about pigs and stuff innit.I don't disagree at all. I also think that there is a lot of bullshit spouted as well, in all criticism of art forms, be they cinema, painting, writing, games, etc. I'm no expert, by any measure - as I simply watch stuff most of the time and interact on an intuitive level rather than trying to "get" it, IYSWIM. That may largely be to do with the fact that I think over analysis without a critical foundation on which to place it is a fool's errand. I guess I have an intuitive idea of what I like which is pretty broad most of the time, and I choose not to analyse it for the sake of it, unless something in the movie makes me do so. The xkcd gag made me laugh as I can see the grain of truth in it - there are no controls or yardsticks in literary or art criticism other than subjective ones. Hell, I went to Art school and got subjected to completely unnecessary, ignorant bullshit analysis of everything that we did on a daily basis. Trust me, when analysis is good it can be brilliant, but if it's just a bunch of noodle brains talking ethereal nonsense it's just so much depressing hot air.
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