I am watching Velvet Goldmine right now...

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AND I AM SO CONFUSED.

Is this the feeling people get when first watching anime?

Well, and it also reminds me of the distinctly confused feeling mixed with mild boredness born of excessive wtf-ness that I'd also felt in my avant-garde film class.

I mean, I read the wiki and I'm STILL confused. o.0 thank god there's pretty people who frequently get naked.

[edit] ::ponders:: this might also be because my musical background is more 'classical' than 'rock', I know that glam rock in general goes whoooosh over my head.

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I mean, I think that the traditional story arc is there for a *reason*, the escalation to a peak and then a fall happens everywhere in nature and like, even when things are out of temporal sequence there's still *patterns*...

And like, see I LIKE crack, but...it just...::TILTS HEAD:: I can't make heads or tails of it. It's style reminds me of Monty Python and Eternal Sunshine and of various types of dream sequences and yet...yet I can't find it funny or serious or ?? wah. ::brainhurts::

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*nods* Exactly. In terms of naked!EwanMcGregor movies, I actually found The Pillow Book more absorbing and easier to follow, which seems to be the opposite of most people.