Tag: Art
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Shang Chi and the legend of a movie review
I tried reading two recent reviews of Shang-Chi today, curious how this newest continuation of the Marvel franchise measured up. Unfortunately, I came away more mystified than enlightened, and filled with a sense of dirtiness I hadn’t expected to contract from a movie review. To be honest, I could hardly call what I read “movie…
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Knowing when to stop
Open people, creative people, will always want to be on the edge of explored territory. And this can be a problem, if the territory is already quite expansive. They will always keep pushing the boundaries, by nature. There won’t be any logical stopping point. Once whatever used to be fresh and exciting has been fully…
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The market for art
I know from experience I would get accused of being a philistine, but I think it’s at least worth considering that there’s a kind of intelligence to the enduring popularity of certain art in the world market. Some works of art, like the great cathedrals of Europe, will live forever. You don’t have to convince…
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On Jingle Jangle
The song “The Square Root of Impossible” is pretty much the prime example of what I find cheap and shallow about modern children’s movies. It’s overproduced, sounds way too perfect, and is completely lacking in depth of character or struggle. It’s the shallowest idea of heroism. It’s heroic, but the broadest, most trite version of…
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A dream of hell, or life, or death
I dreamt I was falling through an infinite red void. Darkness, directionless, expanding forever in all dimensions. Silent and gusty. Twisting, in one forever moment. Falling, pulled forever backward into an infinite regress into myself. It was a place of infinite space, where all the world was mine and I was the only thing in…
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In defense of my criticism of WAP
I was wondering recently what would happen if I ever ran for political office, and what might come up when people inevitably connected me to my writings. I can imagine people criticizing me for my stance as a pro-family, pro-decency politician and pointing out my own tendency to talk about sex, and particularly quoting some…
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Criticism is easier than creation
There are always going to be those who seek to hold others hostage and hold art hostage and hold speech hostage with their own complaints. It’s much easier to criticize a work of creativity than it is to produce one. In particular, the complaint that something is inadequate or imperfect, and therefore is corrupt and…
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Playing the role
The great lesson to be learned from casting is that you won’t always get the role you wanted or expected or deserved, and you can waste your moment being resentful or disappointed about that. What you really can and should do is to make the most of the moment you’re given and play the part…
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A cut tangent from the entry about Untamed
The movie musical Rent does something similar. It has a song where the male singer, Roger, is clearly in the wrong and needs to change. The music becomes discordant when he sings, the style he uses is very harsh, the framing portrays him as separated and confined and in shadow. The girl, Miami, is free,…
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Speculation about the content of Untamed
I haven’t read the book Untamed, and in order to criticize something you should definitely read it. I’m just not sure I want to spend my time on it. But a quick glance offered me enough insight that I think I could get at a lot of its major take-home points. A book like that…
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