K...so here's the thing. I am a film major, which means that
I end up watching a lot of movies that my professors think are beneficail examples of various kinds of film elements. In the past 3 weeks the following are the films that have been considered benefical in some way:
First is "3:10 to Yuma", which was a good example of a conventional film. It just so happens that this conventional film has an unconventional ending in which the main character, and only respectable one in the film, is shot numerous times. The second film was "The Player", an example of a more complex, but still conventional film. This film happens to be about a man who commits murder, gets away with it, and manages to cheat on his girlfriend with the deadmans girlfriend. He gets promoted to president of the company that he works for and the girlfriend of the man he murdered can't help but fall in love with him and they get married and, everybody now, live happily ever after. Finally, we have "Zodiac", which in short is a film about a serial killer. Enough said about that one? I think so. Anyone see a trend...a fairly dismal and depressing sort of trend? The bottom line is that I need a pick me up. So if you have any sugestions let me know, but first I have designed a quiz to help you determine if I am interested or not. So please, before submitting ideas, answer the following questions:
1. Do numerous people die?
2. Does it seem to have an odd attachment to skepticism, brutality, or other generally depressing subjects?
3. Does it seem to think that any redemptive element is overrated, and so should be left out?
4. Does it find death to be a more interesting subject than life?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes then please suggest something else. Feel free to go in the opposite direction even and offer something uplifting, redemptive, perhaps even funny. After all when given the choice I would rather laugh than cry.
