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Scholar of dream worlds. Western Sydney University Doctor of Creative Arts
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Only the Lonely (1991) beefs up the characters’ flaws in the beginning for the sole purpose of softening or reversing them later. Some of the transitions are handled well but when you set a hard point A, it’s going to seem contrived however you get to point B.

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Only the Lonely (1991) is too screenplay. There’s too many things set up for no other reason than to pay off. John Candy and Ally Sheedy a sweet couple. Bizarre strain of morbid humour and a weirdly scary ballet/daydream. Candy delivering the only F bomb good stuff.

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There are a few ways film interacts with bipolar. —film can influence the content of delusions —film can be used to regulate mood —bipolar can narrow down the range of things I might want to watch and make me more critical I never know whether to pick something which matches my intensity.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I think Star Trek V and Star Trek: Generations are as good as the others honestly. They were all kind of cheeseball.

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For movies: Jason and the Argonauts. Cat on a hot tin roof. A streetcar named desire. Psycho. Vertigo. So many more.

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I think I am fine with Apocalypse Now Redux being the one I own. This film isn’t harmed by excess. That’s its whole deal.

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I’m not bothered by losing a $15 ebay purchase. I can probably get my money back. But it bothers me that I told the Post the problem in time and they refused to fix it.

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In other countries you can bribe officials to get things done. I want to offer Australia Post a bribe for the delivery of my parcel.

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Australian Post redirected my copy of Woodstock (1970) to Queensland instead of my Sydney suburb. That’s like if it was in New York and they took it on a detour to Canada.

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High concept doesn’t mean what those words suggest they mean.

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Watched Apocalypse Now (Redux). This time I noticed Lance and what happened to him. His arc is a quiet one. He goes from engaged to disengaged. But he survives. I didn’t even remember him surviving.

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Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back is genuinely wise. I think that’s what’s missing in subsequent Star Wars. To write something wise you have to be wise about something. Instead we get pontifications that stand in for wisdom. It’s kind of okay in the prequels where the Jedi are an inept bureaucracy.

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People I Know (2002) brings back memories of studying media and becoming disillusioned. There’s something to be said for learning hard lessons when you’re young. The film is great in parts and goofy in others and I appreciate it more since they stopped making movies at this small scale.

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Reading books you don’t like is something an academic has to do from time to time. The reason is always that it’s *relevant* even though it sucks. Which is also something that can come up in real life. It’s a skill worth having though not everyone needs to be as masochistic as I am about it.

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Finished The Death of Bunny Munro. It doesn’t make the mistake of making the twist I assumed in the beginning and handles that foreshadowed thing well overall. But then doesn’t know how to end, which reminds me of Star Trek Discovery last night.

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Leonard Cohen’s advice for reading poetry aloud (which he delivers in a poem) is basically “the curtains are blue”.

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Watching People I know (2002). I loved this so much in my early twenties. I haven’t seen it in a long time but I know it very well. At the same time I’m not even sure if it’s good. I think I am too familiar with it to be able to reassess it.

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Watching the end of Discovery and it ended as well as could be expected and now has a baffling 20 minute epilogue.

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