With Regards to Writing About the Movies:

Hello everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful week-end. I do not have many new or original ideas at this time but would just like to comment on the reading assignment. I found it interesting how there are so many different ways to think or write about a film. One usually would expect to see a standard review or critique for a film, but there are so many other ways to express one's opinion. Before this class and my Intro to Media Studies one, I was a casual viewer. Now, I am learning to look beyond simple entertainment value in the hope of understanding the true meaning of any visual work. I was amazed to see that there are screening reports, movie reviews, theoretical essays, and critiques. All of these are affected by the author's individual opinion as well. This excites me as well and leads me to wonder if any report, no matter how great the effort, can ever be completely unbiased. That is all I have got for now. Take care.