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Film plottage

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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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I've realised that while cmb.is-a-geek.org gives a minimal summary of my life and things I'm working on, and this journal has recorded most vaguely interesting events for a while, I haven't really written much in the way of general thoughts about life, the universe and everything. So I'm starting, here. It might also help me get better at expressing myself, which would be no bad thing.

So, the things I like in films, and really in books too: looking at people. How people work. How their choices work. As my neural computing notes hint at: the things that make us human, even though our brains can be regarded as machines. Most of all, I think, a good story. Ferris Bueller doesn't have much plot, but it's a good story anyway. An ending which, if not happy, is at least closure and a feeling that I've experienced something. Emotion and imagination. I'll sound like an old man if I say they don't make 'em like they used to, but, well, they don't, do they? Someone tell me a good film from the past three years. There aren't many, are there? There are certainly few, these days, that appeal enough that I'll go and see them alone, as opposed to for the added benefit of seeing what someone else thinks of a particular kind of story, a particular world, a particular world-view.

That's quite enough of that, I need to dsfw!