Friday, November 7, 2008

Spoiler alert!

One of my pet peeves with movie reviews is that they tend to tell you everything, robbing you of the pleasure of watching stories unfold. I was particularly annoyed to see that in this Friday's Times there's a one graph movie summary of "I have loved you so long" (see post below) that manages to reveal plot elements that the director intentionally doled out, bit by bit, to allow viewers to actually participate in the movie. There's a question of judgement that comes up in the movie--how we judge, why we judge, whether we're entitled to judge, how fast we judge, etc etc. Acquiring the information in bits, in this case, is critical to the movie experience. Thumbs down on the Times!

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