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People and all their dumb theories and metaphors...

posted 8 years ago by yonas548
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I like that people have ideas about "what the creators was thinking" making the movie, but I hate people that spit it out like they KNOW what the creators was thinking.

It is fine that you state your opinion and that you have an idea about what the movie is trying to say (if anything at all) cause guess what people, not all movies have a deeper meaning, some movies are just fine the way they are presented.

What you'll most likely read on this forum is people saying Diana is her depression... really?

Please give me a link to one of the creators saying this, cause that is not what I am getting from this movie at all.

I see it for what it is, a movie about an evil spirit from an evil girl, that had some supernatural powers to start with (even while alive), where she *beep* with people's mind EVEN before she met Sophie, let us not forget her dad had written that she was in "his head" before he shot himself, and she was alive at that point (Diana).

Over and out!
also good movie

[–] samlynn12 8 years ago

http://www.avclub.com/article/lights-out-director-david-sandberg-defends-ending--240341

It really was a horrible metaphor I don't know what they were thinking of...

[–] wilhelm-22 8 years ago

Making interpretations of movies or art in general is not really about finding out what the creators had in mind. If that was the case it would be better to just politely ask them. As soon as a movie reaches an audience new layers of meaning are created and this is really what is interesting with art, how it tells different people different things, but also how it reflects our society and the time that we live in.

[–] sakura_droplet 8 years ago

This is all true, and a good thing, but just because something can be interpreted a certain way, doesn't mean that it's necessarily right or, at least, worth getting worked up or offended about. Especially in today's hyper-sensitive social media fuelled society where anyone with internet access can voice whatever thought stomps through their brain on a global, public platform, which in itself has proven to be very troublesome in numerous ways.

I mean, where do you draw the line? What if, say, a real life summer camp manager felt the "Friday the 13th" movies were irresponsible because they send out a terrible message that if you send your kids to an American summer camp they might be neglected by their nymphomanic teen counselors and murdered by a vicious serial killer? That may seem ridiculous, especially taking into account the nature and tone of those films, but it's not entirely invalid. However, does that then mean those films should be banned or taken to task, because someone might interpret that from them, even if said interpretation is a bit of a reach (to say the least)?

- Another textbook sociopath -

[–] Strazdamonas 8 years ago

Making interpretations of movies or art in general is not really about finding out what the creators had in mind.

Sadly this is correct. There is a lot of horrible art "experts" that think they have a right to make their own interpretations despite the authors explicit definition what it is. This is exactly why a blue window turns into a depressed world in critics heads. This line of reasoning needs to be criticized as harshly as possible and never supported as valid.

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The spirit of abysmal despair

[–] hannahrose313 8 years ago

Dude, you say you "hate people spitting (out their theories) like they KNOW what the director is doing", but then you do just that. In your post you pretty much state that there is "no message", yet that this YOUR INTERPRETATION that you are stating as FACT just like the people you hate LOL!

People have been interpreting art since it's inception. Once art is distributed, the artist's say on what he was thinking has little barring on the meaning of the art, as there is no meaning. The artist may see his art one way, and a viewer may see it another--and neither is right nor wrong. If you watch most horror documentaries you will hear directors, fans, and actors talking about horror as being an outlit for explaining everyday issues since the days of Dracula and Frankenstein. Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue is one I recommend as it takes the viewer from Universal days up to the modern day, and discusses how the horror films in each period relates to the social upheaval of the times.

Of course you can just see the film in its literal sense, and that's fine too :)