Friday, 14 September 2012

What movies can do


The interesting thing about both the movies was to see how they trace back memories of a deceased person. By interviewing people one cold get a sense of various perspectives filling in the persons character but also contradicting memories, which makes one question the validity of peoples memories. Also the magnitude of belief about each persons perspective was another thing I keep thinking about?
Makes me question how often what I am thinking, is what it actually is, me being sure of it just does not seem sufficient enough anymore. On one hand this makes me take life a little more easily but at the same time it is slightly scary.
In retrospect as I think of these movies I think of how each of them have made me think of various aspects, like the relevance of 'rosebud' in the movie of Citizen Kane made me think of how little things in our lives can have an effect on us much later in life in much stronger ways than we expect. It also reminded me of george Eliots 'Mill on the floss' where maggie the protagonists life is very influenced by all the incidents that happened to her as a child. It also seems like the easiest place for me to draw inspiration from.
I found ti amusing how I automatically referred my life to most aspects in both of the movies. For example in 'El diablo nunca duerme' I realized how its so common for every family to have a mystery thats unsolved and if traced could lead to a very big story. A dead person may not be the only reason for one to feel a sense of mystery in their family. I guess everything comes back to what frame you look at any aspect of life through. That realization gave me a convenient starting point for ideation.


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