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NY Mag TV critic. Editor-at-large, http://RogerEbert.com . The Wes Anderson Collection, Sopranos Sessions. Film & TV bookstore here: http://mzsworldstore.com 

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    1. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

      MZS Retweeted Mike Sell, PhD

      This is true of film as well. Too many people treating texts as “a puzzle“ that only they, the genius, can solve. I think it’s much more satisfying and useful to look at what the work is doing and how.https://twitter.com/mike_sell/status/1258434865076281346 …

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      Mike Sell, PhD @mike_sell
      The single biggest failure of my life as an English Professor is being unable to shake my students' belief that what we're doing is finding "hidden meanings" in a text rather than improving the quality of attention we're giving it.
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    2. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

      This ties into the proliferation on YouTube of “explained“ videos that either make a huge deal of “explaining“ things that anyone can figure out after seeing the film more than once, or else invent hypotheses entirely unsupported by the text.

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      MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

      The common thread here is a desire on the part of the viewer/critic/“explainer“ to establish that they control the text and are superior to it, as well as to “casual“ viewers. They prove mastery by unlocking “secrets” even if those have to be superimposed or distorted.

      5:12 AM - 8 May 2020
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        2. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

          In the meantime, visual literacy is increasingly not taught in public schools because arts education has been stripped. There’s a void that could be filled, and some wonderful video essayists (teachers basically) have tried to fill it. But the hucksters tend to crowd them out.

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        3. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

          I wonder if this is why so many people get defensive and unhappy when faced with art/entertainment that isn’t basically puréed baby food. They’ve been trained to expect to have to do tedious homework as they experience it, like it’s leading to a test.

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        4. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

          This is one of the reasons why I enjoy going to see films with my dad, a jazz pianist/composer. He’s not looking at the movie on seven or eight levels as I have been trained to do. He experiences it the way he would experience a musical performance. As a visceral ride.

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        5. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

          Which is not to say that it isn’t possible to “watch a film wrong.” The reaction to certain Intentionally problematic works of art — with certain people prizing the reptilian aspects and intentionally ignoring the critique — indicates otherwise.

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        6. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 8 May 2020

          The point is, the *experience of the experience* is the reason to read/watch/listen to creative work, and when you start treating everything as a mountain to be climbed or a math equation to be solved, it extinguishes the joy & mystery.

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        1. HLD‏ @KingHarles 8 May 2020
          Replying to @mattzollerseitz

          I've come to have a visceral reaction to seeing the arrows pointing to things and circles you see in all those videos' thumbnails. And I can't explain it. I guess it's like you say, sort of someone reinventing the wheel and wanting a pat on the back for it.

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        1. Matt Keeley‏ @mattkeeley 8 May 2020
          Replying to @mattzollerseitz

          What's the first film to inspire this reaction, do you think? I've had John Boorman on my mind a lot lately, so I wonder if it might be Point Blank? The "Lee Marvin is a ghost" reading still gets so much attention.

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        2. Jacob deNobel‏ @Jacob_deNobel 8 May 2020
          Replying to @mattzollerseitz

          I like Ebert's Dark City commentary where he talks about the interpretation that the film is about the film business as something interesting to think about, but fundamentally something brought to the film, not that the film brought to them

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        3. Jacob deNobel‏ @Jacob_deNobel 8 May 2020
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          But then says that the meeting of the film's point of view and our own is the entire point of engaging with narrative art, so it's interesting to think about anyway.

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        1. Annelisa J. Purdie  🐏  📜  🌾‏ @RosyShepherdess 8 May 2020
          Replying to @mattzollerseitz

          I've seen this, too. It's also what causes some people to feel that they aren't qualified or well-versed enough to talk about and understand certain films; speaking about their enjoyment and true feelings are not seen as being "sophisticated" enough, which doesn't make sense.

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