The Kazakhs vs. the Simpletons...
The writer’s block has hit me bad lately, and I mean real bad. All I can get out of prospective topics lately is a couple of sentences at most. It’s times like these when I feel most dead, like my brain has already started to rot inside my head before the coffin maggots can consume them.
Wait…those were pretty damn articulate sentences. Maybe the writer’s block has taken a rest this morning. Let’s get this morning’s prospective topic out onto the screen before I forget it once more.
(inhaling deeply, exhaling slowly)
After seeing “Borat” at the movies, I read a bunch of reviews stating that the film was a sharp, subversive commentary on American society. This brought the oddest thought to my pseudo-intellectual mind: do all artists wish that their works be interpreted like the critics see them, or do they simply wish to make a piece simply as it is. In essence, did Sacha Baron Cohen REALLY want to make his film come off as a modern-day Swiftian piece of art, or did he just want to make a funny film at the expense of real-life goofs? Odd how such a seemingly lowbrow film can be made to seem like a piece of art that only the snobbiest and most high-minded of film connoisseurs are worthy of appreciating.
Man it’s nice to get that out of my system!
‘Till next time,
Juan
Wait…those were pretty damn articulate sentences. Maybe the writer’s block has taken a rest this morning. Let’s get this morning’s prospective topic out onto the screen before I forget it once more.
(inhaling deeply, exhaling slowly)
After seeing “Borat” at the movies, I read a bunch of reviews stating that the film was a sharp, subversive commentary on American society. This brought the oddest thought to my pseudo-intellectual mind: do all artists wish that their works be interpreted like the critics see them, or do they simply wish to make a piece simply as it is. In essence, did Sacha Baron Cohen REALLY want to make his film come off as a modern-day Swiftian piece of art, or did he just want to make a funny film at the expense of real-life goofs? Odd how such a seemingly lowbrow film can be made to seem like a piece of art that only the snobbiest and most high-minded of film connoisseurs are worthy of appreciating.
Man it’s nice to get that out of my system!
‘Till next time,
Juan