Disinterred

Photography is truth. Cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

Every once in a while I start reading on the history of and philosophy of film. It makes me really want to get a camera and start trying to translate the imagines in my mind onto film. The world is too complex for easy understanding. Every person has a lifetime of history that influences their actions. So to look at an act and judge it outside of any context is no better than a lie. Cinema is capable at its best to distill that complexity into a form that can be used to express a kind of truth. It can also be used to tell the grand lie. The role of the filmmaker is important. He can educate his audience or he can participate in their dumbing down. In no way am I suggesting a type of film or a genre that is more important than any other. It can be lowbrow comedy, serious drama, documentary, adaptation of other works, avant-grade or anything else as long as the filmmaker is capturing the truth and giving it too the viewer.

This is one of the reasons why film critics are important. It’s not to say that one film is worthy or not for viewing, but to analyze the film for its artistic qualities and to try to convey what the film is trying to say. If reviews were less than that lofty goal, then they could be simple one word reviews. But even reviews that do summarize always have many more words describing why that summary exists.

200hp of pure fun. If only I had 120 grand to blow on a bike.

Makes me want to see it.

2 A’s and a B qualify apparently. 3.66 GPA. I think 3.5 is the cut off. Missed the third A by about 1 percentage point.

Hopefully the next semester will be even better.

First week of class is over and it’s looking like it’s going to be a lot of work. Most of my classes are in the morning starting at 7:30am. But one of them is in the evenings of Monday and Wednesday starting at 5:40pm. Makes for a long day on those two days. Not sure I really want to do it, but the class is one I want to take.

The class is on Wireless networking. Which will be cool, but not sure it’s worth 14 hour days. If I lived closer to school, then it wouldn’t be an issue, but having to stay on campus the whole time is a bit much for me. We’ll see. If it’s too much I’ll drop it.