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Re: a few things
I'll try to type this one with out any typos!
I though A.I. was a poor film while seeing it in the
theatre, but I came away from it still replaying it in
my head. By the time it came out on video, I knew I
had to own it. I have noticed that in my experiences,
a film can be too much to take in on a first viewing,
and only after seeing it again, or after thinking
about it after seeing it can I make a judgement call
if I liked it or not.
To me, A.I. was profoundly sad, and the whole tone is
so melancholic throughout the film that I really can't
bear to watch it very often. I can't describe the
emotion I get from it, but it is wholly it's own and
I've never gotten it from another film. To me that
makes it good. Subjectively good.
--- "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Dusty Volume wrote:
> > The way I see it, all the things you are saying
> are equal. A person can
> > not like the film *and* think it bad, because
> everyone has subjective
> > definitions of what good and bad are.
>
> Hmmm. Ever since it came out, I have told people
> that _A.I. Artificial
> Intelligence_ is "a mess of a film, but such an
> interesting mess." There
> is no way I can reduce the film to statements like
> "I like it" or "it's a
> bad film" without misrepresenting it somehow, but if
> there was any film
> that might prompt me to make both statements, that
> might be it.
>
> Then again, maybe I *don't* like it, but I think
> it's a *good* film for
> all the questions it raises and all the thoughts it
> provokes. Hmmm.
>
> --- Peter T. Chattaway ---------------------------
> peter at chattaway_com ---
> "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will
> not tell you where."
> Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven
> Pillars of Wisdom
>
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