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... and I won't make it like that. If for no other reason, I've become really disinterested in narrative feature films since I started coming to film school.
The cirriculum here is centered on narrative filmmaking, and as you might imagine from the stereotypes of academia, there's a heavy emphasis on contextualizing everything and cooking up theories about what it "means" to contemporary social issues. Most of the time, I keep seeing all of these parts of the movie that make it seem totally irrelevant to the "real" world, even though it's obviously supposed to be relevant. I'm starting to think that narrative films can't be effective as social commentary by virtue of their fictionality. I don't think I'd ever say that in class, though. I just wish, for once, we'd analyze a film from a stylistic point-of-view rather than digging around in it for uninteresting political overtones.
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