Some belated thoughts on Creation.

[bagheera]

So... it took me a while to get to it, but perhaps for the better: Creation is not an easy film to comprehend on the first viewing, and a lot of its emotional subtleties came out only after several watches. The film got mixed ratings on RottenTomatoes and most critics who had issues with the film either thought it dispassionate, too much melodrama

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[xxbalaaxx]

Is it not strange that when one reads a book, depending on the book, it may take several read overs to grasp at the many nuances and underlying messages of the book (and even then you may happen-chance to miss something that to someone else is obvious)? And yet everything must be perfectly clear in a film after only one viewing? Film is an artform that combines the visual arts and..in more respectable films the writing arts.. So..in deeper films..one should not expect to gleen all the tiny details of a 2 hour film in one sitting of it. But then American Cinema has really soiled people's perceptions and given them a grand entitled attention deficiency which demands immediate satisfaction. After all, look at all the films that are popular among the masses. If there is a villain in the film (and this simple villain versus good guy formula is excessively popular)..more often than not said villain will be confronted by the antagonist and a long dialogue will ensure whereupon the villain will set out his entire plan so that our hero may have a more efficient means of thwarting said plan.

In short..our attention and tastes in film have become obtuse. Hollywood has fed us so much corn stuffed nonsense that we can't even appreciate the finer courses of film dining..

And don't even get me started on critics who for all their intellectual jargon typically follow the mainstream and keep a careful eye fixed over their shoulders to ensure their reviews meet with the approving nod of their peer critics.. *shakes head*

[bagheera]

Baggins needs more European films! :D

I think exposure to European films is slowly changing the way my brain interprets stories. I think it's much more satisfying to watch films that require some work on the viewer's part... the experience ends up being so much more.

[xxbalaaxx]

And that explains why American taste in cinema is the way it is ;P... thinking? But I want to be entertained NOW!