From: "Lita Coucher" <lita_coucher-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:42:42 -0800





> LC,
>
> Not to be finicky about words,

Hugh,
PLEASE be finicky about words.  That's what I'm trying to figure out!

but your illustration seems to be
>
> 1) a contrast of feeling, emotion, one's personal reaction to, and
enjoyment
> of a movie, vs.
>
>  2) logical definition of its story, characters, cinematography etc., and
> how they relate to each other.
>
> Two people may not agree about the emotional impact of a scene, a segment
or
> the entire movie, but are likely to agree about the facts
> of item 2.

Yes.  I agree.  I'm in a bind about seperating emotional response from the
functionality of the devices used to illicit that response.
lc
>
> HB
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> > > And about what Lita was asking... I think in some cases it's more
> > important
> > > to have opinions than to analyze. I, mean, you can understand
something
> > and
> > > still don't like it. I remember an article by a music critic of the
New
> > York
> > > Times saying just that... that he understood Schoenberg but still
didn't
> > > like him.
> >
> > Right.  My example of this is "Fight Club."  I really found it
distasteful
> > and grotesque, but i recognized it's value as a film.  I enjoyed getting
> > into the themes, subplot, etc.  Film is such a subjective realm, i think
> > it's almost impossible to seperate completely the opinion from the
> analysis.
> > It's difficult, at the very least.
> >
> > LC
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Manuel
> > >
> > >
> > >
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