Re: Adjustment Bureau. Anyone Seen?
If you're going to build a world, whether a real world or ficitional world, whether something we can identify with or something we've never comprehended before, you have to build the framework and the rules that define your world then ruthlessly live within it. And to me, the rules and the framework have to make sense, they have to be cohesive. You can't just make a bunch of shit up and expect us to release ourselves into that world just 'cause. So the argument, "Why can't you just suspend your belief?" doesn't always work. Sometimes I will just respond, "Because it's all fucking stupid, that's why."
I had a real problem the first time I watched The Matrix. There were things happening in John Anderson's world that didn't make any sense, I spent a good deal of time (while the movie was rolling) trying to make sense of them, and getting really pissed off in the process. And then the big reveal made it all make sense, and I immensely enjoyed the rest of the movie.
If you're going to build a world, whether a real world or ficitional world, whether something we can identify with or something we've never comprehended before, you have to build the framework and the rules that define your world then ruthlessly live within it. And to me, the rules and the framework have to make sense, they have to be cohesive. You can't just make a bunch of shit up and expect us to release ourselves into that world just 'cause. So the argument, "Why can't you just suspend your belief?" doesn't always work. Sometimes I will just respond, "Because it's all fucking stupid, that's why."
I had a real problem the first time I watched The Matrix. There were things happening in John Anderson's world that didn't make any sense, I spent a good deal of time (while the movie was rolling) trying to make sense of them, and getting really pissed off in the process. And then the big reveal made it all make sense, and I immensely enjoyed the rest of the movie.
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