solomonwakeling.bsky.social
Scholar of dream worlds.
Western Sydney University Doctor of Creative Arts
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I used to write out whatever was in my head instead of the thing I was meant be working on. Writing it freed me of it and then I could focus again on what I chose.
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I inherited a vinyl recording of the Merry Wives of Windsor from my Grandfather. From what I could tell from the short duration that I listened to it it was unlistenable.
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I’m just writing about movies that aren’t available to stream. I’m giving them all five stars.
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Star Trek VI is similar in that it starts with Kirk being prejudiced (a high point of tension) in a way he wasn’t at the end of the last movie. The point of making him racist is so that he can relent later; it’s contrived. Except this is just one reversal whereas Only the Lonely has several.
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I’ll have to look at some of the newer tv shows and movies again because they too follow a forever cycle without resolution but I don’t think it’s the same as this. They don’t make films like this anymore; it’s like it’s following a textbook on screenwriting.
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Also things are spoiled by racism which is shown as being part of the same perpetual cycle. The movie wants us to go along with this cycle, be shocked and then be moved and forgive. There’s no resolution when the characters remain in this cycle. There’s no challenge to the cycle.
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This is why there are so many scenes of the mother spoiling happy moments. It’s how the story is forced along its wave of joy followed by disappointment.
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It doesn’t actually follow a pattern of rising action to a climax and then denouement. It’s a pattern of falling (from high tension) and then rising again to fall again.
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We talk of high points as happy but the high point should be the point of most tension. This movie begins with a lot of tension which then gets released only to tighten up again. The happy points are the low tension points.
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It’s more like a character wave than an arc it just ends at the crest of a wave (or trough depending on how you assign the starting point).
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The pattern is a series of reversals like a seesaw going up and down. It ends on a happy note but there’s no reason to suppose this won’t reverse again. They even talk about how exactly this could happen and John Candy gives reassurance but he’s done this exact thing before.
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High point A? Latitude and longitude of Point A? I know what I mean but there are no words forthcoming.
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That last metaphor makes no sense. I don’t have capacity to write.
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I might write a review tomorrow. It’s late.
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Sheedy’s characters introversion meant a lot to me as a shy child but towards the end we only see her interact with Candy who she’s already warmed to so it kind of gets lost.
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It usually does help to watch something. Just that act of concentration provides relief for a troubled mind. And it’s more sensual than reading text.
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I need a film to watch about fighting against a decaying administrative system. Not even corrupt just falling apart.
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I think I demonstrated ownership over the item but they’re continuing to refuse to deliver it to me.
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The whole system for dealing with issues is hostile. I wish there was one bureaucracy in Australia that actually worked.
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Australia Post claiming it was the sender’s fault in mislabeling and putting the onus on me to contact them.
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I don’t think hippies are trying to steal my dvd. I just think the systems we have now have all gone insane. The thing about it is: I said this would happen. I specifically said it would end up in Queensland.
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My father wasn’t drafted to Vietnam. But he told me he received a letter telling him he was on the ballot and could be selected. Then the Whitlam government abolished conscription. He says he would have gone to prison rather than go fight in Vietnam. My name means “peace”.
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Brando doesn’t look that fat to me in this. He just doesn’t look like the younger man in A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s normal to age. Even pretty people.
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Insights need to be earned, you can’t cook them up in a boardroom.
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To write something like this you need to have had some kind of experience to draw on and for it to arise spontaneously. You can’t set out to write something wise.
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I don’t much like Stephen King’s The Stand but I am learning a lot from engaging with it. It’s worthy of study even if I don’t like it.
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It’s good to be able to identify what about it is you don’t like. And sometimes you won’t know that until the end. Discovering this can be profitable even if you don’t like the book.
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Not saying every story has to be planned from the beginning just that you need to make a decision somewhere that has consequences for the story. And then you have to deal with that and also have another. The inability to end isn’t something that happens at the end, it goes back further.
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The Big Boss leads up to a climax. The hero makes a vow, is gradually tempted to break it, eventually gives in entirely and then he surrenders, proving he did what he did knowing the cost to him. This a story that knows where it’s going throughout. It’s powerful because of this.
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I might as listener/reader/viewer accept aimlessness in stories but it’s at the end where they try to force it all into a conclusion that it becomes unbearable. If you have no idea where you’re going it’s better to just stop.
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This seems unfair and yet isn’t. He compares the meaning of the poem to data and says not to act out the words, just say them.