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Dec. 12th, 2003 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI demand only two things of my entertainment:
1) That it emotionally manipulate me.
2) That I don't feel like I've been emotionally manipulated
I've seen so many films that just expected me to care because there were violins in the background. That expected me to care about cardboard characters that had no emotional life whatsoever. I started to feel that I was getting too old to be emotionally affected by fiction at all.
And then I see something like the episode of The West Wing I just finished, where a military funeral brought me to the edge of tears, because it showed three-dimensional characters being involved in something that was important to them.
It's not me there's something wrong with. I'm just not watching the right things.
1) That it emotionally manipulate me.
2) That I don't feel like I've been emotionally manipulated
I've seen so many films that just expected me to care because there were violins in the background. That expected me to care about cardboard characters that had no emotional life whatsoever. I started to feel that I was getting too old to be emotionally affected by fiction at all.
And then I see something like the episode of The West Wing I just finished, where a military funeral brought me to the edge of tears, because it showed three-dimensional characters being involved in something that was important to them.
It's not me there's something wrong with. I'm just not watching the right things.
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Date: 2003-12-12 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-13 11:29 am (UTC)Rattenkrieg, it's just horrible.
I was reading it on the train, and earlier while corp-whoring in Star- "We put yuppie pills in coffee" -Bucks.. and even just from the first 100 pages of the book, before the whole complete encirclement thing.
Ack.
Apparently the Germans were "very surprised" that groups of young Russian troops hastily pressed into service would fight to the death through months of starvation.
War. It's bloody stupid.
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Date: 2003-12-15 07:42 am (UTC)I'm not shallow, but fiction is just that and not confusable with 'real life' (quote marks due to uncertainly on the nature(s) of perception ect.)