What I want

What I want
Lauren Brooks
I was discussing this class with a friend the other day and talking about the really weird movies that we had the privilege of watching in our movies class. I told her about the difficulty I had understanding some of the movies and their plots and what they were trying to express to the viewers. I was telling her that I have basically learned that European films are all about telling you the issue and letting you decide and figure out part of the plot. I used the example of Midrash in the Decalogue series. She has never seen the films, but quickly understood what I was trying to explain with the questioning aspect I feel like a lot of these films convey. She quickly got exasperated with the intense questions that these films bring up. For instance questioning the aspect of the 10 commandments, what does thou shalt not murder mean. How do we interpret that in our everyday lives’, what does that mean for soldiers, for the death penalty, for accidental deaths? It’s hard to make these decisions, but sometimes like my friend was telling me you just need someone to take a stance, make an answer, and decide what it really means. It’s tiring after a while to constantly answer these unanswerable questions, and movies, books, and music should help us to answer these questions not add millions more to the list. Sometimes it just becomes over whelming with all of these questions and we need a movie that makes us forget (good ole’ American slapstick humor) or a movie that helps us to answer some of these questions (movies from a utopian society). Sometimes its nice to have a movie to take you away from these questions.