Comments on: You’re Doing It Wrong: Post-Partem Pandora

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:30:07 +0000

I was a little depressed that there was no real Fight Club. I was all ready to go get my ass kicked and then reality set in. I almost gave up on watching movies.

By: Tom Nix

Tom Nix — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:13:43 +0000

But there are literally hundreds of these films that exist. That makes it all the more puzzling.

Also, I would not relate even if it were a movie I loved. I don’t get a little downtrodden because I don’t live in Middle-Earth. I don’t get saddened that I can’t fight shapeshifting aliens in Antarctica.

I love movies, but as experiences that inform my life, not tell me how to live it. A movie should transport you, but not decide how you feel about your reality. Movies, the best movies, are art. And art is interpreted by the viewer according to his or her own situation and perception. Allowing a film to dominate your view of the real world is a sign of dependence.

Once again, I don’t want to act like I am an expert on matters of the brain, but there are real reasons to feel hopeless and powerless. Finding out a movie is fake should never be one of those reasons.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:15:34 +0000

It’s not that hard to understand. In a world filled with greed and corruption and having no power to make a tangible change, stories that show a hero making a change in a huge way is very uplifting, then very depressing when the reader/viewer comes to terms again with the fact that they are mostly powerless. I often feel this way after big epic stories of evil being overthrown, so I can see where people that may be very discontent with their lives and world would take this reminder of the futility of our efforts with difficulty.

You’d understand better, I’m sure, if the board in question existed over a movie you like or can relate to. Movies, while allowing escape, also have the power to make reality that much more real. And shitty.