Re: "Less filling!..." - Analyzing the debate (with some bias)
by
The Stranger
07/30/2008, 5:11 PM
“There is something in what you’re saying that strikes me as important. Something...(Not you’re fault...hard to focus...you write very well.)”
“Would seem to relate to the viewer's ability to suspend disbelief. Beyond the skill of the filmmakers, I'm not sure what determines this.”
“There it is: you said: “I’m not sure.”
That takes courage in this forum. You write of the viewer’s ability to suspend disbelief; do you mean the imagination? You seem to have an understanding of how the human mind works...good...I wish I did. The mind seems to fascinate itself, does it not? I believe that environmental factors can combine with genetic predisposition to create in a...in a what? A subject? An individual? At any rate, an imagination so powerful that without the “help” of any pharmaceutical or complex rituals trance like and hallucinogenic states can be entered in ordinarily mundane situations and at will. This seems to me to be a rather common and well known phenomenon in both psychiatric and anthropological studies. Beyond the skill of the filmmakers...see, we are born without tribe, without medicine chiefs, we Americans...we don’t know how to treat these hyper active suspenders of disbelief; other than to drug them and lock them away. I would like to pretend to be a hero too. This comes from a crazy person so you can ignore it, but, I can see the energy in words...and yours made me feel welcome. Thanks.”