/lit/ - Literature

>>14171301
>>14171260
The dude who has posted his same 5 books for months on end is calling another guy's shelf with Eragon, and Alien impressive

Peoples inability to analyze and interpret art as something more than surface level.
I feel like I see this so much now, especially somewhere like /tv/. No movie is about anything other than what happens, there has so be conclusive answers. The constant threads about the Sopranos ending are a good example. The thought of the ending representing something, being something that you aren't supposed to "figure out" doesn't make sense to them.
I also remember seeing this in one of my classes, on our online discussion boards. We read a text and someone had a response that was just very matter of fact about what happened in the story. Someone else replied to them and said it was good they didn't have any baseless interpretations of the text because you can't know anything for sure.

It's weird, I feel like we don't discuss art anymore as being anything more than what we see, why is that?

>>12805763
this