LOST IN TRANSITION
I got home late last night and woke up really late, around 1:30 pm. Ate lunch and immediately began watching television. During these periods, I am always reminded of the time I spend watching TV. If 1/3 of our lives are spent sleeping and say a 1/3 of our lives spent working, I probably spend the other 1/3 watching TV. That's a lot of television and that's probably why I am so good at pop trivia. If you may be the same way, consider TV Turnoff Week http://www.tvturnoff.org/
After a playoff game at my basketball league (we won easily), I had dinner and sat down to watch Sophia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" (are movie titles supposed to have quotes?). It's one of those movies that I know my mom just wouldn't get nor enjoy. In fact, when she watched it, she thought it was "corny". Maybe she got it or maybe she didn't. But either way, enjoying art is simply a matter of taste. But does our taste in movies say anything about who we are?
Coppola won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this movie and I scratched my head wondering what she wrote exactly. However, looking back at her competition, it is really no surprise that she won. She went up against a cartoon (Finding Nemo), a British film (Dirty Pretty Things) and two other movies not many people have probably seen (The Barbarian Invasions and In America). The movie is very slowly paced and it really isn't full of dialogue. Instead, it uses beautiful imagery and interesting editing to keep it fresh and beautifully simple. In some ways, it is representative of Japan where it takes place.
What is more interesting is the feeling it imparts on you. It's the kind of movie you can't help but think about for a few weeks. It leaves you with more delightful questions to consider and in the end, you know there are really no answers to them. In some ways, it's a take on life and maybe that's why it has interested me so.
I got home late last night and woke up really late, around 1:30 pm. Ate lunch and immediately began watching television. During these periods, I am always reminded of the time I spend watching TV. If 1/3 of our lives are spent sleeping and say a 1/3 of our lives spent working, I probably spend the other 1/3 watching TV. That's a lot of television and that's probably why I am so good at pop trivia. If you may be the same way, consider TV Turnoff Week http://www.tvturnoff.org/
After a playoff game at my basketball league (we won easily), I had dinner and sat down to watch Sophia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" (are movie titles supposed to have quotes?). It's one of those movies that I know my mom just wouldn't get nor enjoy. In fact, when she watched it, she thought it was "corny". Maybe she got it or maybe she didn't. But either way, enjoying art is simply a matter of taste. But does our taste in movies say anything about who we are?
Coppola won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this movie and I scratched my head wondering what she wrote exactly. However, looking back at her competition, it is really no surprise that she won. She went up against a cartoon (Finding Nemo), a British film (Dirty Pretty Things) and two other movies not many people have probably seen (The Barbarian Invasions and In America). The movie is very slowly paced and it really isn't full of dialogue. Instead, it uses beautiful imagery and interesting editing to keep it fresh and beautifully simple. In some ways, it is representative of Japan where it takes place.
What is more interesting is the feeling it imparts on you. It's the kind of movie you can't help but think about for a few weeks. It leaves you with more delightful questions to consider and in the end, you know there are really no answers to them. In some ways, it's a take on life and maybe that's why it has interested me so.
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