Thursday, August 21, 2014

Mission #2: Understanding Movies

Movies are a sure short way to keep ourselves entertained. But movies are also a great source of improving understanding of a lot of things. They are a sort of school in themselves. My next mission is going to be watching movies everyday and describing the plot or characters in a way that is not explicitly mentioned in the movie and are left for the audience to interpret or understand.

Where is this coming from? I have recently joined a creative writing class and I am exposed to a whole new way of reading books and watching movies. I suspect myself to be a dyslexic given the difficulty I face when reading anything, so I am going to stick to movies - they will get over much faster and with relative ease. Besides, I will get my daily dose of entertainment too instead of sleeping through the afternoons. Although I feel that even movies are hard work to some extent because I can't sit in one place for more than 30-45 mins if I am not actively working on something really engaging but I am going to give this a shot.

So this is what I want to do -
Watch a good movie everyday. Understand the plot or the character's designed. Write a post about my understanding of the central character, the plot and my comment on the two.

Hope this is fun for all of us.

P.S: I tried a mission before this and failed at it twice. I had to give it up and give myself some time to energize myself and look for another meaningful mission that will help me develop my creative outlook and also be a little entertaining for my audience. Thank you for coming back to this blog!


2 comments:

  1. Try to finish the IMDB top 250 challenge. See all movies in the top 250 list and blog a review of each. http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

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    1. Thats a good idea! Thanks for the link and the suggestion. This is truly a challenge because I am someone who needs to put in effort to sit tight for 2-3 hrs to be able to watch a movie and being able to understand the depth of the characters and the fine details of the plot of 250 movies is going to be way too tough. But I will try! :)

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