notable mentions for the week...
tonight i watched 'Roman Holiday' starring Audrey Hepburn. she is absolutely classic.
a Statement on 'Classic': it strikes me that a simple love story such as 'Roman Holiday' is hailed as 'classic,' while today's release is considered a 'chick flick' and 'cliche' if it is at all straightforward and simple. granted there are plenty of quality exceptions (take Before Sunset and Spanglish as two recent examples). but the problem is that these films are, as i said, the exception. in their place, the majority of love stories on our Blockbuster shelves seem always to be pushing the envelope of normalcy farther and farther from anything that makes any sense. it's like not only has our world become more complicated, but we've twisted this complexity into all shapes and sizes until we're left with a twisted hunk of color and material that is beautiful as an artform, for sure, but so grotesquely distorted that we believe the process of distortion is the point, forgetting that it was a real world we were describing in the first place. ...one of the characters always has to to be serving time in a straightjacket, and characters never even make an attempt to work throught their issues. it's assumed that everyone is okay just as they are, straightjacket and all.
other notables from this week:
-ani difranco concert at Frederik Meijer Gardens
-homemade butter pecan ice cream
-"12 Angry Men" with Henry Fonda
a Statement on 'Classic': it strikes me that a simple love story such as 'Roman Holiday' is hailed as 'classic,' while today's release is considered a 'chick flick' and 'cliche' if it is at all straightforward and simple. granted there are plenty of quality exceptions (take Before Sunset and Spanglish as two recent examples). but the problem is that these films are, as i said, the exception. in their place, the majority of love stories on our Blockbuster shelves seem always to be pushing the envelope of normalcy farther and farther from anything that makes any sense. it's like not only has our world become more complicated, but we've twisted this complexity into all shapes and sizes until we're left with a twisted hunk of color and material that is beautiful as an artform, for sure, but so grotesquely distorted that we believe the process of distortion is the point, forgetting that it was a real world we were describing in the first place. ...one of the characters always has to to be serving time in a straightjacket, and characters never even make an attempt to work throught their issues. it's assumed that everyone is okay just as they are, straightjacket and all.
other notables from this week:
-ani difranco concert at Frederik Meijer Gardens
-homemade butter pecan ice cream
-"12 Angry Men" with Henry Fonda
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