I will never, ever watch crap like The Shape Of Water, nor will I look forward to it, but I will defend to the death what you said, thewaitress, my friend! There are times when we are suckered in by others; it’s called peer pressure. Years ago, when I was teaching myself film and video editing, I learned something from studying Spielberg’s Jurassic Park: the power of “the reaction shot.” Something happens on-screen. We cut to the face of a character whom we’ve been conditioned to like and with whom we feel rapport, and the look on the character’s face tells us how we are supposed to feel: wonder, terror, love, and so on. It is brilliant manipulation. There was once a phrase: “Forty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.” Peer pressure, because they sure as heaven CAN be wrong. The majority—and you can take this to the bank—is almost always wrong. What you feel in your heart, on the other hand, is almost never wrong.
PS When was the last time that you saw Mark Whalberg, who is, admittedly, my Beantown Homie, be actually funny since The Big Hit, which was not only a long time ago, but also didn’t have a sentient Teddy Bear? I’m going with “Never.”
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thewaitress (1616)
7 years ago
Jurassic Park is full of those shots. I can recall Lauren Dern selling it when she first sees the dinosaurs. Naturally the jello scene, that spoon shake. You feel how they feel! Great movie. I know that feeling in my heart doesn't lie :)
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R_Kane (15828)
7 years ago
The heart NEVER lies. Not ever.
There was a time (not the only time, not at all) when I had a reading with a psychic. He told me, “You see like children and animals see. You see with your heart. Most other adults see with their minds. The mind is easy to fool. The heart can never be fooled.” Listen to your heart, and trust it. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti. (Shanti, with which T. S. Eliot concluded his landmark poem, albeit edited and worked into shape by Ezra Pound, The Wasteland, is a Sanskrit word that means “the peace that passes all understanding.”)
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