I find Facebook the strangest of them all. I mean, I pretty much accept an add from anyone on Facebook, providing I have actually met them/internet met them at some point in my life. There are very few people I know and speak to on a regular basis that don't have an account. And I watch these people tell their darkest secrets, have public slanging matches and close-to-breakdowns in such a public forum, and I just.don't.get.it. I don't mind posting bits of my day, random thoughts and chatting to people, but my dear family seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to sling all their dirty laundry out in public all over the internet. And I just think, this is what you're leaving behind. This is what people will think of you, remember you for, years from now. I'll keep my truly personal to the corners of the internet I can filter satisfactorily, thank you very much!
RE: the film thing - I think that's why, as a whole, I prefer decently made television to film. I'm trying to think of films that have been properly brave enough to just leave it there and let the audience deal in their own way, and I can't think of many at all. Inception, I guess you can argue. Open Your Eyes (The original Spanish version of 'Vanilla Sky', which got extremely dumbed down for Hollywood). Blade Runner. I'm sure there is more but that's it, off the top of my head. Telly does it much better, I think, which is why I find it both more heartbreaking and interesting, and much more worth my emotional investment.
I always try and read the book first too. I find if I do it the other way around the characters are already in my head as the actors, and it stops my imagination choosing it's own direction. Which is kinda the whole point of reading, to let your imagination take over, you know what I mean?
RE: the film thing - I think that's why, as a whole, I prefer decently made television to film. I'm trying to think of films that have been properly brave enough to just leave it there and let the audience deal in their own way, and I can't think of many at all. Inception, I guess you can argue. Open Your Eyes (The original Spanish version of 'Vanilla Sky', which got extremely dumbed down for Hollywood). Blade Runner. I'm sure there is more but that's it, off the top of my head. Telly does it much better, I think, which is why I find it both more heartbreaking and interesting, and much more worth my emotional investment.
I always try and read the book first too. I find if I do it the other way around the characters are already in my head as the actors, and it stops my imagination choosing it's own direction. Which is kinda the whole point of reading, to let your imagination take over, you know what I mean?
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