My proseminar is awesome :D
May. 13th, 2008 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today we discussed models of masculinity and femininity in American Beauty. Apart from (and possibly partly due to) the fact that I pretty much disagreed with a lot of what my peers said, I enjoyed it.
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But the actual good news is: the lecturer did not set the upper limit of words for the paper we're supposed to write for her proseminar. And this one time I plan to be ruthless, because this pretty much sets it - I will write about Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.
SQUEE!
[Poll #1187303]
But the actual good news is: the lecturer did not set the upper limit of words for the paper we're supposed to write for her proseminar. And this one time I plan to be ruthless, because this pretty much sets it - I will write about Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.
SQUEE!
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Date: 2008-05-13 08:32 pm (UTC)I super, że nie masz limitu słów, esej o Wesleyu <33333333
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Date: 2008-05-13 08:40 pm (UTC)Nie podała limitu. Nie wiedziała, co robi XD
Oj tak, mam nadzieję, że mi go przyjmie XD
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Date: 2008-05-13 09:26 pm (UTC)A co do dziewictwa - chodzi mi głównie o to, że wydaje mi się, że założenie, że ona mówi akurat wtedy jemu prawdę jest strasznie uproszczone i wydaje mi się, że tak naprawde nie wiemy. Choć pewnie chcieli, żebyśmy uznali, że jest dziewicą. Ale... uproszczenie.
A poza tym ona sprawiała trochę wrażenie, że była molestowana. :/
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Date: 2008-05-13 08:34 pm (UTC)Ale masz fajnie, że możesz pisać o postaci z serialu.
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Date: 2008-05-13 08:58 pm (UTC)Ale ogląda się dobrze (choć do pewnego momentu).
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Date: 2008-05-13 09:01 pm (UTC)A Ty w ogóle widziałaś w końcu Prestiż?
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Date: 2008-05-13 09:03 pm (UTC)Na zepsutym kompie w domu czy moim, który nie czyta płyt? XD
O, to może u Ciebie obejrzymy? Bardzo chętnie obejrzę.
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Date: 2008-05-13 09:05 pm (UTC)ALE CO Z GAIUSEM?
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Date: 2008-05-13 09:42 pm (UTC)Ale ja nie przepadam za Nortonem.
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Date: 2008-05-14 09:42 am (UTC)Co do AB nie pamiętam, za dawno oglądałam.
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Date: 2008-05-14 07:20 pm (UTC)Za Balem i Jackmanem zresztą też XD
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Date: 2008-05-13 10:04 pm (UTC)I praca o Wesie, looool! Mam nadzieję, że Ci się uda :D
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Date: 2008-05-14 06:08 am (UTC)Mam też taką nadzieję!
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Date: 2008-05-14 06:07 am (UTC)Muzyka bardzo, gra aktorska bardzo, ale przesłanie i postaci... eww ;)
To bardzo zgrabnie zrobiony film, ale najzwyczajniej w świecie nie mogę się z nim ani trochę zgodzić ;)
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Date: 2008-05-13 11:09 pm (UTC)I will write about Wesley Wyndam-Pryce.
Awesome!
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Date: 2008-05-14 06:06 am (UTC)It felt like one of those very skillful manipulations ;) And I was very much creeped out by the hopeful ending.
As to my essay - yeah, I know! I really want to write this paper :D \o/
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Date: 2008-05-14 01:52 pm (UTC)Especially the ending bugged me; here I was sure that even though the film annoyed the everloving fuck out of me, the scriptwriters were self-conscious enough to not treat the blown-out-of-proportions "philosophy" seriously and leave the film a satire. And then the ending happened. What a joke.
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Date: 2008-05-14 03:13 pm (UTC)I mean, I really enjoyed the first half of the movie, and even parts of the second, but ultimately - it was well-packaged but empty, wasn't it? Simplistic and obvious, and above all, annoying.
The ending was awful.
1) Angela was criticised most, wasn't she? The lying virgin-slut! All her fault.
2) Poor Lester. He RESPECTED her virginity! Let me retch my guts out. What a creep, what a disgusting person. And he was awful to his clearly disturbed wife -__-
3) Rick is a voyeur, a criminal and a creep, and yet somehow we're to empathise. Well, I don't.
And the bag was pretty, but the way they used it was pretentious. And yeah, everyone loves it and takes for granted that Actually Angela Was A Virgin!!!1!11
But I liked watching it... anyway. They're good at their stuff, aren't they, these filmmakers.
♥ I wish I heard from you more often! How are you doing these days?!
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Date: 2008-05-14 04:58 pm (UTC)I wish I knew how they did this. Usually when I don't like a film, I just don't like it, and voice my opinion in form of offensive remarks (I'm terrible to watch films with, really), but with American Beauty, the dislike sort of lurked in my subconsciousness right until the end.
And don't forget the oppressed closeted gay father. Angela might've been a virgin-slut; he was a Nazi. (Dude.) Alternatively, Jane and her problems? The "my tits look actually natural instead of like Pamela Anderson's" kind of problems? These problems are Meaningful; they make you Deep.
[*VIOLIN MUSIC*]
Every character, I'm afraid, more or less made me want to beat them with a shovel. Lester was a douche (and if a middle-aged horny douche wanted to jump my bones like a crazy maniac, I'd probably tell him I was a virgin, too; hell, I'd tell him I had syphilis, or AIDS); his wife seemed overplayed; Rick was a sodding psycho, oh my god. Whomever am I supposed to sympathise with here? The suicidal perv or the junkie voyeur?
My reaction to the bag was more or less "Dude, just get on with it and show The Seventh Seal already! Jesus." because I'm allergic to this kind of grandiose narrative devices. Was it even a narrative device? I think it aspired to be one.
I wish I heard from you more often, too! Mostly I just don't have the time to sit down and have a chat with anyone, whether due to actual lack of time (I sort of come and go like the Flying Dutchman, sitting in front of the screen just long enough to watch the new Who episode, or lose valuable sleeping hours on anime marathons) or my own neurosis I'm not sure. My fail, let me show you it.
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