Oscar night.
Living where there are two tiny movie theaters (and the last three movies that I saw having been Dodgeball, Spiderman 2 and Stepford Wives last summer in Anchorage), this is like watching some vague space-travel award show.
And I think that I missed the musical score awards.
Luckily Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won best original screenplay and Jamie Foxx's speech was really moving, or I may as well be downstairs drinking Crown and water in the dark.
Living where there are two tiny movie theaters (and the last three movies that I saw having been Dodgeball, Spiderman 2 and Stepford Wives last summer in Anchorage), this is like watching some vague space-travel award show.
And I think that I missed the musical score awards.
Luckily Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won best original screenplay and Jamie Foxx's speech was really moving, or I may as well be downstairs drinking Crown and water in the dark.
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
*nerd*
I don't dislike deeper meanings at all, quite on the contrary. It's just that in this case, I really feel like the deeper meaning is the emotions of the story. It very nicely conveys desperation and pain and frustration. What is brilliant to me about it is that it's simple, and everyone can relate to that; as such, you could apply what the story is saying to any act of expressing yourself and failing with equal relevance. By narrowing the idea just to writing, the teacher was doing Chekhov a disservice; it goes much deeper than that.
But the most important thing is that all of that could be revealed by simply reading the story. For all my teacher's specifics, all he did, I think, is detach people from the material and get them analyzing what certain plot elements could be symbolic of, rather than thinking about what the story was actually trying to convey. Rather than saying, "These emotions could be applied to writing" and then drawing parallels, he told us that the story actually was about writing, which it's not. As far as I can tell.
I'm not sure if that made any coherent sense, but I spent a while trying to figure out how to explain it and I'm not deleting it now.