I don't know if it is the movie makers or the audiences that encourage them to make period pieces and movies set in the old days otherwise, but it seems odd when watching a film like An Education that they don't do much to make the present that they are filming in speak for itself too.
As a sort of double entendre.
I mean because it is a visual and emotional piece more than it is a political one, I was taken aback often by issues of race and the smoking, moreso because I just hate smokers. But mostly because I couldn't see the movie as taking place in the past, regarldess of the old cars, unless they said so.
Where I wonder, if maybe I'm not too keen on the subtlety if they did or simply should have had more political topics that are debated in the present mixed in there too.. but on purpose. Making it so that one could rewatch it if at first those points were missed from the period setting and not paying enough attention.
Like, if they are are going to put an effort in making a movie timeless by setting in the past... why not make an effort while their at it to still make it immediately relevant?
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or maybe for once I waited just long enough to figure out what the impulse was driving at.
Uncertainty (2009)..
um.. wot?
I think I'll have to watch this a few times more.. (only 12 minutes in so far)
But yeah, putting movies in the present, firmly in the possible, like this is what I find so compelling and entertaining.
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Hmmm..
speaking of modern..
What if there was a service for posting things to the public?
I mean you have your facebook and twitter etc.. even your CNN, but they require that you have access to TV, a computer etc..
What if there was a bulletin board service that put information in the face of every pedestrian in the public?
Like public transportation, libraries, and general ad space have e-commerce display spaces and information boards.. but they are still controlled by a company...
What if something like Twitter could allow you to post to that space? If not a premium service.
I just wonder why people are still posting broadcasts messages using their feet, paper and fixative?
Wouldn't it be easier, and spare trees, litter and the public annoyance of unauthorized solicitation and useless spam notices? If the better way was to post a rich content A4 ad (on any of what have become ubiquitous public flat-screens wasted on ad space) for that 15 second exposure on a fixed rotation.. for free of for a small fee?
An enabler to this would be giant e-reader like display devices that used little to no power so that a posting could contain rich content, rich enough anyway to support sound and video in that 1-1.5 to 2-4 foot information space.
If your message was posted by region the rotation could be much faster than if it was a real service wide broadcast.
I wonder especially because missing persons would be MUCH easier to identify if you saw video of them, and could HEAR them (given directional audio devices that play only to a specific volume space (so as to expose only persons in that space to audio).
That and normal public service broadcasts would easily get priority on the service, in the case of amber alerts for example.
And if the service was well controlled, the amount of spam would be reduced, like as part of the terms of service. I suppose it would depend on the applicable laws and consequence and how content would be rated prior to hitting the service (how much spam would get on to it versus how useful it could be versus how depressing it would be to hear about lost loved ones, if the upside was getting them home safe and sound).
And it wouldn't need to be on directional if you could have a synchronized phone app that gave you contact information for replaying a specific piece of content from the service that you saw or had a specific ID for.
As a sort of double entendre.
I mean because it is a visual and emotional piece more than it is a political one, I was taken aback often by issues of race and the smoking, moreso because I just hate smokers. But mostly because I couldn't see the movie as taking place in the past, regarldess of the old cars, unless they said so.
Where I wonder, if maybe I'm not too keen on the subtlety if they did or simply should have had more political topics that are debated in the present mixed in there too.. but on purpose. Making it so that one could rewatch it if at first those points were missed from the period setting and not paying enough attention.
Like, if they are are going to put an effort in making a movie timeless by setting in the past... why not make an effort while their at it to still make it immediately relevant?
--
or maybe for once I waited just long enough to figure out what the impulse was driving at.
Uncertainty (2009)..
um.. wot?
I think I'll have to watch this a few times more.. (only 12 minutes in so far)
But yeah, putting movies in the present, firmly in the possible, like this is what I find so compelling and entertaining.
--
Hmmm..
speaking of modern..
What if there was a service for posting things to the public?
I mean you have your facebook and twitter etc.. even your CNN, but they require that you have access to TV, a computer etc..
What if there was a bulletin board service that put information in the face of every pedestrian in the public?
Like public transportation, libraries, and general ad space have e-commerce display spaces and information boards.. but they are still controlled by a company...
What if something like Twitter could allow you to post to that space? If not a premium service.
I just wonder why people are still posting broadcasts messages using their feet, paper and fixative?
Wouldn't it be easier, and spare trees, litter and the public annoyance of unauthorized solicitation and useless spam notices? If the better way was to post a rich content A4 ad (on any of what have become ubiquitous public flat-screens wasted on ad space) for that 15 second exposure on a fixed rotation.. for free of for a small fee?
An enabler to this would be giant e-reader like display devices that used little to no power so that a posting could contain rich content, rich enough anyway to support sound and video in that 1-1.5 to 2-4 foot information space.
If your message was posted by region the rotation could be much faster than if it was a real service wide broadcast.
I wonder especially because missing persons would be MUCH easier to identify if you saw video of them, and could HEAR them (given directional audio devices that play only to a specific volume space (so as to expose only persons in that space to audio).
That and normal public service broadcasts would easily get priority on the service, in the case of amber alerts for example.
And if the service was well controlled, the amount of spam would be reduced, like as part of the terms of service. I suppose it would depend on the applicable laws and consequence and how content would be rated prior to hitting the service (how much spam would get on to it versus how useful it could be versus how depressing it would be to hear about lost loved ones, if the upside was getting them home safe and sound).
And it wouldn't need to be on directional if you could have a synchronized phone app that gave you contact information for replaying a specific piece of content from the service that you saw or had a specific ID for.