Gimme Fiction

"I like nonfiction. There is so much to know about this world. I think you read something somebody just invented it...waste of time." -Sideways, 2004

"I've just spent the last three years of my life trying to extricate myself from a relationship that was full of deception, and I'm doing just fine." -Sideways, 2004

A bit over a week ago, I spent my first evening with my new television and watched a previously viewed $5 DVD I purchased some years ago, for the first time, called Sideways. I won't go into a review here, but I will say that I enjoyed the movie despite its somewhat crass and dark reflection on human existence. I also will say that although more than a week has past, I still need more time and another viewing to really unpack what it was about the movie that touched me. Though I said that it was dark, but I also obviously felt uplifted and good after the movie ended. What doesn't touch me though, really? Anyway I selected the above quotes from the movie, because they really made sense to be placed next to one another at the time (the time being right now).

Sometimes people tell me that they do not enjoy a movie, because there seemed to lack a well-defined and action-based plot. (For instance I had someone tell me this about Juno, which I loved, naturally). Anyway these types of movie-goers think that these types of movies are too boring or uninteresting and slow-moving and pointless. It seems to me 9 times out of 10, people prefer fiction/action-based to non-fiction. While most admit they enjoy movies that are nonfiction, because it hits home and seems more real to them, most of the nonfiction stories that are successful or blockbuster hits must follow some sort of fairytale equation. Generally speaking people want and are attracted to these perfect, extraordinary ways of life, they want glamour and fame and money and travel and sex and drugs and that is how they want their motion pictures too. They could not sit through and watch a documentary about just anybody's life because it is too ordinary, too real.

But me, well, I genuinely admire the human story, and I would much prefer as the quotes above reference, a true story pulled from the average joe's life, because I can relate and I can see a larger portion of the world enveloped in the story, because minus all the hype and the ways we are told things should be, real life and real people are so fascinating and vast and mysterious, why would we bother investing our time (which is really insignificant) relishing lies, illusions/deception and living like insensitive zombies in a fantasy world?

Which makes me think about the reason why I have not spent many hours watching television programs and movies. I have been too busy trying to make my own TV Drama and movie. Haha...now this is getting corny and when I can actually note that I am being corny I know I have gone too far (usually I am unaware!) so with that said, I must sleep, so I best say ciao and split.

Thanks for reading though, and if you have any comments/rebuttals/anger/happiness/love/
fears/free stuff/etc. you want to share with me or the world about this post or any life experience you have had, you know where to find me. ;)