Comments on: 30 Days in April: Day 15 http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/04/30-days-in-april-day-15/ Words, Music, Culture Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:46:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jesse Dangerously http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/04/30-days-in-april-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Jesse Dangerously Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:38:31 +0000 http://hardlikealgebra.com/?p=199#comment-158 I totally understand your response and don't think it's inappropriate or wrong, it's just really far from how I felt about the film. I can't really account for it, either, because I am one of the easier people to upset with disturbing content in films! I wonder what makes for such a different emotional reception of the film? I totally understand your response and don’t think it’s inappropriate or wrong, it’s just really far from how I felt about the film. I can’t really account for it, either, because I am one of the easier people to upset with disturbing content in films!

I wonder what makes for such a different emotional reception of the film?

]]> By: Jim_Withington http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/04/30-days-in-april-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Jim_Withington Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:36:10 +0000 http://hardlikealgebra.com/?p=199#comment-157 I haven't seen Happiness. Ha! I meant the movie. I don't think it was sweet at all, except in the scene where July walks down the street with the shoe dude. Seriously, Erin sent me a description of the movie someone had written and was like "did we even WATCH this movie? THIS movie sounds delightful!" I think in another context maybe it wouldn't have been so creepy. But it just kept making us wonder if we wanted to finish watching it. I haven’t seen Happiness.

Ha! I meant the movie.

I don’t think it was sweet at all, except in the scene where July walks down the street with the shoe dude. Seriously, Erin sent me a description of the movie someone had written and was like “did we even WATCH this movie? THIS movie sounds delightful!”

I think in another context maybe it wouldn’t have been so creepy. But it just kept making us wonder if we wanted to finish watching it.

]]> By: Jesse Dangerously http://hardlikealgebra.com/2009/04/30-days-in-april-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Jesse Dangerously Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:24:38 +0000 http://hardlikealgebra.com/?p=199#comment-156 I'm with you on the squick potential of the film, but what I felt was masterful about it was - and this diverges from your experience - that it managed to incorporate those elements and remain completely sweet. I think it's kind of about... I'm pulling this out of thin air so maybe I don't even think it... maintaining or reclaiming a sort of innocence in the face of things which would in many cases shatter it? I've seen it twice and both times I was surprised by that content and awed by how far I was from being upset by it, when ordinarily it would be the exact sort of thing that would wreck a film for me. When I compare it to, for example, Solondz's Happiness, it's like magic! Uh... I want to say more but I'm in class. So, later! I’m with you on the squick potential of the film, but what I felt was masterful about it was – and this diverges from your experience – that it managed to incorporate those elements and remain completely sweet. I think it’s kind of about… I’m pulling this out of thin air so maybe I don’t even think it… maintaining or reclaiming a sort of innocence in the face of things which would in many cases shatter it?

I’ve seen it twice and both times I was surprised by that content and awed by how far I was from being upset by it, when ordinarily it would be the exact sort of thing that would wreck a film for me.

When I compare it to, for example, Solondz’s Happiness, it’s like magic!

Uh… I want to say more but I’m in class. So, later!

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