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She Also Found It at the Movies
- Hnrobert42 9d agoOkay. I'll accept the premise that she was principally an autobiographer through film reviews. But when she was, as the author notes, not a kind or good person, why consume her autobiography?
- jonstewart 9d agoBecause she was smart, and her reviews will make you think.
- mdp2021 9d agoYou did not put quote marks (and were not literal in quoting), so we may interpret that you would not accept advice from non kind people (what?!). Besides the basic logic that it should be advice from people with good judgement that one should accept, what should instead be revealing and a red alert is > her enthusiasm for Jean-Luc Godard’s lesser works
- Hnrobert42 3d agoGenerally it is true that I don't want to listen to the rambling autobiography of inkind people.
- applfanboysbgon 9d agoDoes one often use this basis for consuming autobiographies? I'd rather think the common cause for reading an autobiography is because it is interesting, or because the person is interesting, or notable to history in some way, and you want more insight into their life and way of thinking. I'm admittedly not much for autobiographies myself, and the only memoir I actively chose to read was Napoleon's, but my choice to read it certainly wasn't because I thought he was a kind person.
- keiferski 9d agoDo you only read autobiographies, and by extension, blog posts/novels/etc. by people you morally agree with?
- seabombs 9d agoI often enjoy reading movie reviews more than watching the movie they review, even when I do enjoy the movie. I can't usually describe that well why I did or didn't like a movie, so it's fun when I read a review that does put into words how I felt about it. It gives me a deeper perspective on my own feelings about the movie. Shout out to Vince Mancini, my personal go to film critic.
- bananaflag 9d agoMaybe you just like reading stuff more than watching stuff.
- seabombs 9d agoI think it's my stage of life (40s with kid) where finding the time to watch a movie is often too hard. But reading the review is only a few minutes.
- maroonblazer 9d agoI get this. Often I'll watch a film that seems just "so so". Then, I'll read a review and gain a new appreciation for the film. I'll see things in the film I'd previously missed and understand it in new ways. Richard Brody of The New Yorker and Ebert's website are particular favorites of mine.
- kakacik 9d agoThere is reverse of this - have some movie you liked a lot in the past, and show it to somebody who hasn't seen it, ie a date. Suddenly I'll notice little impurities, small missteps, lack of depth of some character or logical error in some reasoning. Maybe the subconscious eagerness to please them and share the experience I've had changes perspective.
- koolba 9d agoMy favorite movies review was for a film in the late 90s. The name of the film escapes me, but at the time it had full page ad in the paper with quotes from the review. It said “Watching X like a beach vacation”. I randomly stumbled upon the full review and the rest of the line was “… and you’re not invited”.
- z0r 9d agoI enjoyed reading this review of movie reviews
- bookstore-romeo 9d agothere is an archive of her reviews here: https://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/ https://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/ it’s not the best way to browse reviews at random however