▲Over-ANALyzing▲
Ah, the onion. Delightfully
perceptive and brutally mocking.
After I finished laughing
at this hilarious video, it brought some familiar thoughts to my mind.
When analyzing movies I
often have to pull myself back. There’s a part me that wants to dig really deep
into a film and draw meaning from every little thing. I want to pick it apart
and inspect it under a ridiculously sized private-eye magnifying glass. But
there’s the other side of me that tugs at my sleeves and draws me away. I have
this fear of becoming like those pretentious snobs I see at art galleries
sometimes, looking at a canvas painted yellow and explaining how it represents
the moral dilemma of humanity, when in all reality it’s just a damn canvas
painted yellow. I think that this video by the Onion is poking fun at people
like that, and indeed they do seem incredibly silly. However, is it such a crime to come away with meaning that wasn't intended?
Art is supposed to inspire
and evoke thought. A bucket might just be a bucket to me, but to someone else
it could mean an emptiness that needs to be filled, or childhood memories of
playing on a beach, or a flying saucer for all I know.
I think the important
thing is not the artist’s intentions, but rather what the viewer comes away with.
~Josiah▲
That video made me laugh xD I'm always scared of over analyzing too, but it's also really fun to "over analyze" your own stuff and tell it to people just to mess with them P:
ReplyDeleteOHMYGOSH I TOTALLY JUST FINISHED MY COMMENT BEFORE THE END OF THE VIDEO AND WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE GAY VELOCIRAPTORS OHMYGOSH LOL but the schindler's list thing is taking it a bit too far, though it's still pretty hilarious :333333
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