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.

Comments

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

I will never get Velvet Goldmine, and I like glam rock and pretty, pretty people.

I think I had to watch it twice to really take it in. I won't say it's the best movie in the world, though.

[ladyagnew.livejournal.com]

Me too--I wanted to like it, because hello: pretty people, often naked, glam and slash and Oscar Wilde, but the movie is so static and dull, it defeats the whole spirit of what it's trying to convey. The movie is about joyful things but lacks the spirit of actual joy. Haynes is a director more interested in the look and the conceptual ideas behind a movie than in anything else--see his Bob Dylan movie of 2007, where a bunch of actors, male and female, took turns playing Dylan. Interesting idea leading to an uneven result.