2000-02-25 12:06:48 I have to write about how much I hate going to the movies. I have always loved movies, and traditionally I have loved going to the movies, but I feel like humanity has degraded so much that all pleasure in going to the movies is gone. I would like it if I could be the only one in the movie theatre, but that's never the case, not matter what time I go. and the main reason is because I'm always so appalled at what some people find funny. no matter what the movie summer of sam, titus, can't hardly wait, you name the genre, whenever there's something uncomfortable, or scary, or homophobic (intention or otherwise) it seems like the majority of the audiences' reaction is to laugh. it totally sickens me. it's like people don't get that it's ok to express emotions in any other manner. laughter is like this big defense mechanism whenever we're confronted by something slightly challenging in a movie. it makes me crazy. or is it even a defense mechanism? are people just uneducated idiots? or is everything funny and I don't get the joke? ugh. ugh. ugh. and this feeling, this impulse of revulsion I get when I see people laughing at things because they don't understand or can't accept them, SHOULD build in me the desire to educate, and help people see or at least challenge them and make them think about why the see the world the way they do. but it doesn't work like that. it's like, I don't know, just too monumental of a task. I have the opposite reaction: I just want to be away from People, and hopefully somewhere where I can surround myself with people who I know aren't idiots. who I know think critically about the world and the role in it. but that group is getting smaller and smaller. k thank you very much & credits music: A beemer or necklace or freedom." |
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