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My favorite new show on TV is Mad Men (though I've only seen like three episodes). It's so interesting to watch it because it's set in this totally different time, and people act like they're in this totally different time and the characters are all in character and stuff, but there is still this other awareness that the people watching the show aren't of that time.
There was one scene where a child comes running into the run, with a plastic bag over her head, and the mother yells, "[CHILD'S NAME]"!" and then, "If my drycleaning is on the floor, you're going to be in so much trouble!" Which is hilarious, now, since modern parents would never let a kid play with a plastic bag because THE KID COULD DIE! It's this really interesting kind of humor, where it's not actually funny at the time, but it's funny for us to be watching it now, since we have all of this other context through which we experience it.
Often, I think modern stuff goes too far in engaging the audience ( /o\, modern art where viewing it is part of the art, and part of the "point" is that the average person isn't going to get it, so the people who do get are aware of other people not getting it, and omg, stop it!), but I think that kind of awareness of audience seeing characters as being different from the way that characters see characters is really cool.
I watched The Savages a few nights ago. It was a really interesting movie because for the characters, it was "about" their father dying, but for the audience, it was "about" getting to see the way abuse affects children through their whole lives. Watching it was cool because, going in, I knew it was a movie about a brother and sister who care for their abusive father, who is on his deathbed. The whole time I was watching it, I was waiting and waiting for the Big Reveal about what a monster their father was, but that never really came. The movie actually just showed the after affects-- the way the brother and sister live as adults, struggling with intimacy showing very few coping skills. Most movies about abuse show the actual abuse; it was really unique for there to be a movie that actually just dealt with the aftermath. (I didn't love the movie. It was subtle and really well acted, but I couldn't relate to any of the characters, so it was interesting in a thinking, not a feeling, kind of way.)
This
is amazing because the four of them are all in a row, and you can see all of their little hands, except that Brendon is this BLUR OF MOTION! <3333333333, HIM!
Also, LOOK AT HOW TALL SPENCER LOOKS HERE!
Spencerrrrr, stand up straight for always.
There was one scene where a child comes running into the run, with a plastic bag over her head, and the mother yells, "[CHILD'S NAME]"!" and then, "If my drycleaning is on the floor, you're going to be in so much trouble!" Which is hilarious, now, since modern parents would never let a kid play with a plastic bag because THE KID COULD DIE! It's this really interesting kind of humor, where it's not actually funny at the time, but it's funny for us to be watching it now, since we have all of this other context through which we experience it.
Often, I think modern stuff goes too far in engaging the audience ( /o\, modern art where viewing it is part of the art, and part of the "point" is that the average person isn't going to get it, so the people who do get are aware of other people not getting it, and omg, stop it!), but I think that kind of awareness of audience seeing characters as being different from the way that characters see characters is really cool.
I watched The Savages a few nights ago. It was a really interesting movie because for the characters, it was "about" their father dying, but for the audience, it was "about" getting to see the way abuse affects children through their whole lives. Watching it was cool because, going in, I knew it was a movie about a brother and sister who care for their abusive father, who is on his deathbed. The whole time I was watching it, I was waiting and waiting for the Big Reveal about what a monster their father was, but that never really came. The movie actually just showed the after affects-- the way the brother and sister live as adults, struggling with intimacy showing very few coping skills. Most movies about abuse show the actual abuse; it was really unique for there to be a movie that actually just dealt with the aftermath. (I didn't love the movie. It was subtle and really well acted, but I couldn't relate to any of the characters, so it was interesting in a thinking, not a feeling, kind of way.)
This
is amazing because the four of them are all in a row, and you can see all of their little hands, except that Brendon is this BLUR OF MOTION! <3333333333, HIM!
Also, LOOK AT HOW TALL SPENCER LOOKS HERE!
Spencerrrrr, stand up straight for always.