Post by Mouse on Aug 10, 2008 7:16:33 GMT
I've given up worrying about whether I understand the plot fully or not - got to the point where I just accept that I will usually have failed to pick up on the 'clues' and so just carrry on watching. Anyway, it gives me and my OH something to discuss afterwards. He fills me in on the all the bits I missed. Sometimes I'll have been so absorbed I won't have missed a thing but other times I wonder whether I was sitting watching the same film!
What I do find is that most of the time I'm looking at the background anyway. I love the old films where you see the high street at it would have been in my Mum and Dad's youth. I like looking at clothes, hair, makeup, cars, advertising just to see what things were like. I require a degree of historical accuracy and can be quite picky. What really gets up my nose are those films of the 60's and 70's where they'll be portraying the 1940's yet the hair and make-up will be all wrong.
I'm also interested in the people in thet background and what they're doing, how realistic they are if they're say sitting at another table in the background eating or talking!
Perhaps I do all this because I need to keep my mind occupied and it suits my short attention span. If I don't get the plot at least I will have had an interesting time looking at everything else - either admiring it or picking holes in it..
One of my favourite films is ' Drowning by Numbers' by Peter Greenaway. The more you watch it the more you see. Some films I can watch over and over and never tire of. Drowning by Numbers would be one and Shawshank Redemption another.
What I do find is that most of the time I'm looking at the background anyway. I love the old films where you see the high street at it would have been in my Mum and Dad's youth. I like looking at clothes, hair, makeup, cars, advertising just to see what things were like. I require a degree of historical accuracy and can be quite picky. What really gets up my nose are those films of the 60's and 70's where they'll be portraying the 1940's yet the hair and make-up will be all wrong.
I'm also interested in the people in thet background and what they're doing, how realistic they are if they're say sitting at another table in the background eating or talking!
Perhaps I do all this because I need to keep my mind occupied and it suits my short attention span. If I don't get the plot at least I will have had an interesting time looking at everything else - either admiring it or picking holes in it..
One of my favourite films is ' Drowning by Numbers' by Peter Greenaway. The more you watch it the more you see. Some films I can watch over and over and never tire of. Drowning by Numbers would be one and Shawshank Redemption another.