[HN Gopher] "With every good film I see, I feel reborn."
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"With every good film I see, I feel reborn."
Author : pizza
Score : 51 points
Date : 2022-04-17 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| pizza wrote:
| Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.
|
| > _Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has
| created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the
| past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant
| work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-
| life event--the arrest of a young man on charges that he
| fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen
| Makhmalbaf--as the basis for a stunning, multilayered
| investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and
| existence, in which the real people from the case play
| themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative
| knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world._
|
| https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up
| js2 wrote:
| Another excellent Iranian filmmaker is Asghar Farhadi. I
| thought _A Separation_ was extraordinary.
| telesilla wrote:
| I simply love this film and so many of Kiarostami. Close-up
| wins out in my top 3 because of just how brilliantly he and his
| found-actor make use of each other. To perfect ends.
|
| (Where is the friend's house, and Through the olive trees are
| my other favourites, though truly all are fantastic)
| srcreigh wrote:
| This is on my list now. Sounds similar to one of my favs,
| Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation, a movie about himself and his
| alter ego struggling to write an adaptation of a book.
| everybodyknows wrote:
| Title needs "2013".
| davesque wrote:
| Very relatable quotes from that piece. Here are some others that
| follow the quote from the title: It feels as if
| I made it myself, as if it were my creation. I
| identify with the director. I identify with the
| actors.
|
| Well told stories have incredible power in the human mind.
| vmoore wrote:
| I have mild ADD and can't read books very well. I read a book
| like I read Twitter, extracting little soundbites and quotes out
| of it to mull over later. With movies, I get the basic gist of a
| story and I'm happy with that. A movie is a watered down book
| that I don't have to wade through. Some key movies that I always
| loved: Limitless, The Matrix, Fight Club, all of the LOTR movies.
|
| Those movies moved me in ways a book simply couldn't. And I've
| tried reading Tolkien, and just couldn't pay attention. A little
| hack I do (since I will never read all the books in the world),
| is read the last line of a book I randomly picked up in the
| library or a book shop, and commit that line to memory. I've
| memorized ~100 'last sentences' of books now!
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| hzambo wrote:
| One little trick that works for me: read and listen at the same
| time.
|
| I love books, I love reading, but my main struggle while
| reading was having to go back and read a few pages again and
| again when I caught myself lost in random thoughts. Sometimes
| it took quite a long time to finish a simple book because of
| this.
|
| Most books today have and audiobook version. So just try both
| at the same time. It's less likely you'll get distracted and if
| you do, you can just catch up to what you have been listening.
|
| But most important trick is to read things you like and that
| interest you. Don't force on books that aren't interesting just
| to say that you finished it.
|
| I hope this helps.
| tonguez wrote:
| why would anyone want to know this?
| smegsicle wrote:
| it's the most active thread on the page yadingus
| hirundo wrote:
| Audiobook publisher GraphicAudio has cheesy tagline: "A Movie
| In Your Mind.". Well yeah, that's where all movies play. But
| there is a sense in which an audiobook is more movie than book.
| Especially with light reading while doing something else, like
| driving or gardening.
|
| Maybe that loophole will work for your ADD.
| srcreigh wrote:
| Out of curiosity, how's your visual imaginative abilities?
|
| The aphantasia test: imagine a person rolling a ball across the
| table.
|
| What color was the person's hair? If it didn't occur to you,
| you may have aphantasia.
|
| (This ability, I assume, is key in reading books. It's like an
| ongoing movie in your head if you can do it. I can't.)
| bigyikes wrote:
| When I was younger, I would always skip over those kinds of
| long, windy paragraphs full of visual descriptions. It's like
| noise to me.
|
| I do have a sort of movie playing in my head, but it's not
| really a visual or auditory experience. It's more like a
| running list of bullet points; a stream of facts. Visual
| descriptions are chock full of these facts, but they're all
| usually inconsequential to the plot so I tune them out.
|
| I find aphantasia very strange. I don't lack a mind's eye,
| but I do lack the ability to use it while conscious. My
| dreams are extremely visual and movie-like, but my conscious
| experience isn't really visual at all. It wasn't until
| recently that I learned "day dreams" are named that way
| because for most people they resemble dreams, but mine don't
| at all.
| trentgreene wrote:
| That's not a good test for aphantasia, and will way over
| diagnose. Try googling test for aphantasia for much better
| examples
| jaynetics wrote:
| I agree. I have a vivid imagination (visual and otherwise)
| and like reading. When I imagined this scene, it was rich
| in detail (colors, textures, lighting etc.), but the
| person's hair wasn't a part of it, because I had "zoomed
| in" too close to the action.
| GordonS wrote:
| This test seems imperfect.
|
| I imagined what you said, but my thought was focused on the
| _ball_ , and so the person was "unfocused", or "not as
| detailed" - I'm not even sure what gender they were.
|
| Oh, and I'm colour blind (which is relatively common), so
| probably don't think of colours in the same way as others.
| schwartzworld wrote:
| Sounds like pop science. I did as you asked and didn't
| imagine the person's hair, but I can imagine things visually
| and have been an avid reader since childhood.
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