Since I am writing a series of posts that focus on discussing films, I thought I might talk about some of the things that often make it difficult to do so upon watching the movie for the first time. When I watch it initially, I just try and watch it for the experience. I let my suspension of disbelief take me over and just try to get as involved with the process of watching it as I possibly can. If the movie is good, this can come rather easily and the opposite occurs if the movie turns out to be terrible, and as is the case with that, I'll just turn it off and never look it's way again unless I am forced to.
Why this often makes the process of analyzing the movie difficult and writing about it is that I often try and get the process done in many ways. I try to do some background research in order to get some more insight on any glaring holes I missed the first time and more recently, I've taken to writing notes during the initial viewing, which might also be hurting the way I analyze the movie itself since I am trying to get into the movie and just let the experience take me for a ride all the while trying to pick it apart and this process I might abandon due to how sometimes, it might be a good thing to just watch the movie and not try to tear it apart right away, so be forewarned for my discussion on Cronos because that one might be a little hard to get through. During the second viewing though, is where I usually watch the movie and write the post during it, often trying my hardest to try and incorporate some of what I see or get, which usually also comes from thoughts I build up from a few days of thinking about the movie itself long and hard. I'll often look up some of my research during this time and try and figure out what other people have found in the movie to talk about, mainly so that I can figure out if others have had similar ideas that I had as well and if they had worded them better than myself.
I also think that maybe I should abandon the watching the movie a second time and writing the post during the viewing since I think one of my better posts had been done that way, and that one was the one on Eyes Without a Face. That mostly came from research and memory of what had gone on during the movie, which I remember very well for the most part at least in terms of the visuals and the basics of the story, while looking stuff up filled in some of the blanks. It also helps that the movie is one of my favorite movies of all time and that I did have to lot of time to think about things for quite a while. My Fear and Loathing post was similar but part of that not working was that I think I tried too hard to be insightful of what was going on and failing miserably, instead of just saying my own thoughts regardless of if they were original or not. Which may make the process of doing the week I have planned where I post a Depths of Pretension once a day for five days sound kind of daunting. So that might have to be done in a way that I can kind of go through all of those movies and watch them, take notes on what I think I would like to talk about, and them post later. Or I could work on them in advance but wheres the fun in that?
I also think I might just talk about movies I like without any real mission other than just mention what I really like about it. Maybe doing that more as a podcast sort of deal instead of writing about it, maybe have someone there with me who wants to talk about those movies as well. I don't know if I'll ever get to that anytime soon but it is something I'd really like to do. Have it where we watch the movie and then record the podcast an hour or so later when we put some more thought into it somewhat.
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