I was just reading the last post I reblogged and it reminded me of a conversation I’d had with someone recently. They asked me the other day if I liked going to see movies with other people. I said that in terms of actually watching the movie, going with them added nothing.

I come out wanting to discuss:
– motives, feelings, interactions between characters.
– I would have whole theories about the fictional universe.
– the musical score, and how parts of it repeated in certain segments to link/echo different scenes.
– wardrobe choices, or wardrobe mirroring, so characters complement or clash.
– how scenes were shot e.g. closeup or wide and why that choice was made, and how it changed the complexion of the scene

and I do this naturally, without really thinking about it. This is just how I watch. My instinct is to dissect. I don’t do it for everything. I mean there are some things that I just enjoy for what they are, and when they are done, I don’t think about them anymore. However, those are things I can take or leave, I don’t really care about them.

With anything I care about my focus is always on the characters. I’m a big fan of suspending disbelief and treating the characters like people. That means I don’t get to argue about what happened, it’s fact. The characters get the lions share of my attention. However, I’m not ignorant of cinematographic choices or how they are designed to manipulate us to think/feel certain ways.

The other people I go with on the other hand come out saying “well x character was hot” “that was a fun explosion” and they are done. They don’t think about things like I do, or anywhere near the depth that I do. To be honest I don’t know anyone in real life that thinks like I do. In fact, I think I could probably exhaust most people, by my willingness to discuss things in depth.

This is why I blog, so I can talk at my screen all the things that I think and get it out of my system without bothering anyone. I’m a writer though, maybe I’m predisposed to analyse everything and find meaning.