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I just watch Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia on my day off work (I’m sick) and I’ll be honest I didn’t understand a lick of it. Poetic, beautiful, this made me feel something but I don’t necessarily understand what it was trying to say or what it meant.
But is there a concrete meaning to art in general? I suggest that we try and leave behind our urge to over analyze films, something adopted from English classes in middle school, and rather adopt a feeling based approach. Rather than look to someone else to tell you what something means on the ol youtube or reddit, let yourself sit in that not knowing. How does it make you feel????
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I agree so hard! forming your own interpretation that connects specifically to you is part of the beauty and power of art!
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I feel like it gives you clarity. For example, I just watched Dunkirk, albeit on a plane, and I thought it was awful. Just the most boring, dull, dimensionless, dialogue-less, character-less (like we know nothing about the characters or their backstory, so why even care? They're all just cheap stale tropes) movie. After we landed, I checked online to see what people actually thought of it and was absolutely blown away to see it receive such high ratings and have so many people claiming it was the best nolan movie ever - and I like a lot of nolan's stuff, so I'm not just a hater.
Anyway, I think part of it is just me getting old, but I like how the distance of not immediately consuming a piece of art can help you avoid getting swept up in the opinions of others - or I suppose it could also have the opposite effect and lead to your taste being completely tainted by the opinions of others. So the other key is to not have a good memory (conveniently a byproduct of getting older), that way you don't remember the opinions of others by the time you finally get around to watching it.
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can be quite freeing. what’s going on in this film? I have only a very slight idea
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