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I just watched Across the Universe. Yes, I felt like a complete poser for watching it. I was one of those people who was like, it's an indie film, therefore I will be cool when I watch it.
It turned out to be amazing. But it also made me so angry that I cannot sing. I.wish.I.could.sing. And I also want to fall in love with a guy who can sing. But that is a different story for a different blog.
So in my Communications class we've talked about social construction. Socially constructing your world whether you want to or not (an interesting way to think about it). I really love the idea of social construction, that you can make your world the way you want it to be. In my house, our pets are people. They are part of our family because they talk to us (okay, it's actually just us talking for them) but I think that we have socially constructed the animals, our pets, to be a part of the family.
So with that example out of the way, in the movie itself, these people made their world theirs through their passion. Instead of taking the route that most do/have done and go to college, get a job, get married and settle down with the proverbial 2.5 kids, they made the world their own. But in a more literal sense with social construction is how the people MADE the movie. This world they created with the psychedelic colors and peace love sing a longs (I do understand it was a manifestation of all the drugs they were doing during the 60's) was such a magical place to step into. To float around while Jim Sturgess croons about how love is all you need, it was just the highlight of my night.
I find it hard to express my love for this movie in the form of Communications notes, but I think the characters in the movie constructed their world through, like I said before, their passion. Lucy (Rachel Evan Wood) decided that war was not an option for her, that she wasn't going to lose another person she loved to it, so she sought out someone to protest with. She participated in that peace movement against the Vietnam War, and they constructed it to be a way of life.
The movie was such a beautiful thing that it left me feeling like I was floating away on a cloud of mushrooms myself...not that I would know what that was like... :)
Good movies always make me happy. *Sigh*
2 comments:
Thank you for your comment :) I haven't seen Across the Universe yet, but as soon as I can, I will. By the way, it's funny that you should mention that, since it's an indie film, you were going to "be cool" just by watching it. In Latin America, indie films are called "cine arte" or "art films". I actually HATE that term because it just seems WAY too exclusive. As far as I'm concerned, in films porn and bad children's movies are also ART. If art is, as most people say, a way of expressing what the director (in the case of movies) feels or thinks, then I don't think people should be so full of themselves to only consider certain films "art". Many times, these so-called "art films" are just another way of saying that not evn the director and writer understood what the hell they were trying to say.
Your blog is great. It seems like you are already making your mark in this industry. Congratulations!
Thoughtful post, Ashley (and it makes me want to see the movie - or should I say film?). I'm glad to see you're engaging not only Across the Universe, but also across the blogosphere :)
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