I'd rather be in Drop City... or Hallstatt

Drop City - The Documentary

Somewhere

I went to watch the film 'Somewhere', by Sofia Coppola and really liked it because it showed me exactly what i expected of it. Then I kept realising more reasons later why i liked it so much.

- It's perfectly empty of try-hard superlative portrayals and declarations. It doesn't try to be epic.

- It's structure isn't determined by the principle of growth, which is only really hinted at momentarily in the Hollywood actor guy by the arrival, but mainly departure of his daughter.

- The whole film is a level-plane throughout; nothing really improves or worsens for any of the characters.

- Every single character is pseudo-accomplished and unheroic.

-There are no baddies to relish or goodies to apsire to.

- It's midway between the everyday and an art experience.

And the only thing to slightly defy all those things i just said is the daughter Cleo; she improves her dad's situation; makes him less numb to himself and then that results in the tiny hint of personal growth at the end.

I wrote that cos i think i'm gonna use it for uni.

Why I decided current graphic design is stupid.

'"Seldom we find', says Solomon Don Dunce,

'Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet

Through all the flimsy things we see at once"'

- 'An Enigma' - Edgar Allen Poe

Gunman

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