I'll talk more about them in a separate post, but I'm really looking forward to the second season of Once Upon a Time and the final season of Fringe. Also, the new installment of American Horror Story. Really curious to see how the anthology format works out.
that was an interesting article about movies controlling our brains. I'm not sure that I'm such an uncritical viewer that I wouldn't notice some of the issues raised. For example there is no way I would go and see something like Transformers, and I will walk out if the treatment of women annoys me.
I hadn't viewed Lord of the Rings from that point of view, I am guilty of accepting that, although I did point out to the children that characters who are ugly are often evil, but this isn't true in real life. Plus I have read a lot of fantasy and the cliches do jump out, perhaps it's because I read Tolkein as a child?
We went to see Brave last week, that had some better messages in it, apart from that it's okay to follow wilo' the wisps, which is patently a dangerous and stupid thing to do. I've paid attention to those old folk tales!
But there are little things we can accept as fact without questioning it: just as an example, my husband and I watched J. Edgar last night, and there's a scene early on where he tells his future personal secretary that he invented the card catalog system the Library of Congress uses. At first, one assumes he's talking about the Dewey Decimal system, which is clearly wrong, and after a bit of research one learns the Library of Congress uses a different system. That's what the movie claims he invented... yet Googling that info provides conflicting results.
This is something I would've never questioned before reading that article, you know?
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I hadn't viewed Lord of the Rings from that point of view, I am guilty of accepting that, although I did point out to the children that characters who are ugly are often evil, but this isn't true in real life. Plus I have read a lot of fantasy and the cliches do jump out, perhaps it's because I read Tolkein as a child?
We went to see Brave last week, that had some better messages in it, apart from that it's okay to follow wilo' the wisps, which is patently a dangerous and stupid thing to do. I've paid attention to those old folk tales!
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This is something I would've never questioned before reading that article, you know?
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