Thanks for the recommendation! I’d love to see one more artfully rendered. Gone Girl is a great high point in that genre (although not a date movie that engenders belief in love! :)
A really interesting way of talking about perspective. It boggles my mind how much our perspective shapes everything. You capture this well.
I don’t watch video essays on films, but I often listen to people review skateboard videos and it’s always interesting to me where my views align with or diverge from the reviewer — all perspective.
There were many well-written lines in this piece that I really enjoyed, below are a few of them :)
“... he twists time and place around these characters, embracing an impressionistic visual style that evokes the disorienting effect of infectious infatuation.”
“I lack the conviction to claim “I loved it” without qualifying that statement 114 times.”
“They spend hours crafting arguments and writing scripts; I stay awake for 90% of a film while munching on fruit snacks.”
I haven’t seen “Wicker Park,” although I will now out of pure curiosity, but your description immediately reminded me of one of my favorite French “romantic” psychological thrillers from the early 2000’s, “À la folie...pas du tout” or “He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not,” which I *think* is on Amazon Prime. It’s one of those perspective shift movies where from one side it looks like one thing, but it’s an entirely different beast from the other. I think you’d like it! I watched it for the first time when I was 18, and halfway through I had to change positions to face the window to see if anyone was there because I was so freaked out (a very rare reaction for me), which is one of my favorite movie watching memories. The more you can immerse yourself in it, the better! A bit like watching “Gone Girl” for the first time (another great one) and having your mind blown.
Thank you, Michael. You distill that lesson well: views align or diverge, but none are necessarily right or wrong. I need to keep reminding myself of this fact, so thank you for reinforcing it.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’d love to see one more artfully rendered. Gone Girl is a great high point in that genre (although not a date movie that engenders belief in love! :)
Thanks for reading!
A really interesting way of talking about perspective. It boggles my mind how much our perspective shapes everything. You capture this well.
I don’t watch video essays on films, but I often listen to people review skateboard videos and it’s always interesting to me where my views align with or diverge from the reviewer — all perspective.
There were many well-written lines in this piece that I really enjoyed, below are a few of them :)
“... he twists time and place around these characters, embracing an impressionistic visual style that evokes the disorienting effect of infectious infatuation.”
“I lack the conviction to claim “I loved it” without qualifying that statement 114 times.”
“They spend hours crafting arguments and writing scripts; I stay awake for 90% of a film while munching on fruit snacks.”
I haven’t seen “Wicker Park,” although I will now out of pure curiosity, but your description immediately reminded me of one of my favorite French “romantic” psychological thrillers from the early 2000’s, “À la folie...pas du tout” or “He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not,” which I *think* is on Amazon Prime. It’s one of those perspective shift movies where from one side it looks like one thing, but it’s an entirely different beast from the other. I think you’d like it! I watched it for the first time when I was 18, and halfway through I had to change positions to face the window to see if anyone was there because I was so freaked out (a very rare reaction for me), which is one of my favorite movie watching memories. The more you can immerse yourself in it, the better! A bit like watching “Gone Girl” for the first time (another great one) and having your mind blown.
Thank you, Michael. You distill that lesson well: views align or diverge, but none are necessarily right or wrong. I need to keep reminding myself of this fact, so thank you for reinforcing it.