/lit/ - Literature

>>20190701
>tier lists
1. As I Lay Dying
2. Blood Meridian
3. Absalom, Absalom
4. Beloved
5. Genealogy of Morals
6. Sula
7. A Mercy

>>17903810
>he calls himself a writer period

>>17841635
>Formal education is the only legitimate way to begin engaging with these subjects,

>>8831770

>>5516973
>Implying religion isn't destructive.

>>5291548
>White male author. Writing characters that aren't white or male poorly

>On purpose

>Posting one of these threads again

>Jurassic Park
>Includes dinosaurs from the Cretaceous

>>5200134
What, no pitch? Where's the pitch?

>>4796420
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>>4777150
>I can't even put into words why I like anything I like.
That's different, that's probably a lot more of an honest approach even if uninformed.
The problem is appreciating culture purely from a social perspective, evaluating movies or books based on the image they hold in conversation. I'm not saying it's not an important aspect of a work's reception, but it shouldn't be treated as the /only/ piece.
People sit down and watch movies without ever readjusting the image they walked into it with, they turn off all critical thought, towards the movie as much as its reception. They "read" Joyce, Dostoevsky, Derrida without ever actually reading it, which is obvious when they hide behind a mislead, vulgar understanding of subjective relativism that means taste can't be bad, you can't devalue my experience. An experience that was a social act, which is different from an actual reading, which includes a reading that wasn't fully prepared for the material. You might not have gotten everything out of it, but what you did is certainly perfectly 'valid', even if you're unable to express it clearly to another.

>>4776669
And the Grand Beauty is just a sort of product that has internalized this stupidity. You can't even appreciate it as an expert sleight of hand like Short Term 12, crafting an elaborate paradox of an 'artifice of sincerity', which is interesting even as it is cold exploitation, because the Grand Beauty is actually stupid enough to adopt the accidental very limited 'ideology' that manifests with earnestness. Instead of using it to deliver high commercial/critical value, it just perpetuates the underlying ideas within itself, like a filtered instagram or an uninspired vimeo.
"High art" is dumb, true art is democratic, beauty is in the quotidian etc. couched in a weak repetition of a "satire" on a non-existent "high society". Quotations around the words that don't have any relationship to contemporary reality; they're only notions drawn from other media and confused as real (unintentionally. It's the same way Place Beyond the Pines seems to understand The Cop only through depictions within dramatic 1 hour serials). It's just a plain, dumb movie made by a dumb person carrying dumb ideas, like 12 Years a Slave. The opening party scene was well filmed. It's less an homage to Fellini than an unintelligent, uninspired CG repetition of his surface aesthetic.