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Sep. 17th, 2003 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3pipeproblemThe only problem with RPing until 6 AM is that I cannot write anything if I haven't had enough sleep. Anything good, that is. And since I put off all my homework...not good. Although the assignment is rather interesting. It just disturbs me that I can't figure out the purpose behind it. I'll explain.
In Queer Cinema, we watched Todd Haynes' Poison (we watch a Haynes film every other week, more or less, which is just fine by me). The movie consists of three separate stories: a pastiche-like-thing of '50s horror movies, about a man who becomes a monster after drinking the essence of the sex drive; a faux-documentary about a boy who shot his father and then, according to his mother, flew away; and a very Oz-like story based on the writings of Jean Genet, about a man who basically became a thief because he could legitimately function as a homosexual in prison society and his obsession with another prisoner (and there's scar traceage!). The assignment is to take either the horror segment or the homo segment (these are Haynes' labels) and present them like a documentary. Which is interesting, but it's hard to figure out why we're doing it. I can only assume that it has to do with naming, defining and labelling things. So I don't know if I should just manufacture a point for my "documentary" or leave it inconclusive, or make it completely contradictory, like the documentary in the film.
Yes, I am just putting off writing it.
In Queer Cinema, we watched Todd Haynes' Poison (we watch a Haynes film every other week, more or less, which is just fine by me). The movie consists of three separate stories: a pastiche-like-thing of '50s horror movies, about a man who becomes a monster after drinking the essence of the sex drive; a faux-documentary about a boy who shot his father and then, according to his mother, flew away; and a very Oz-like story based on the writings of Jean Genet, about a man who basically became a thief because he could legitimately function as a homosexual in prison society and his obsession with another prisoner (and there's scar traceage!). The assignment is to take either the horror segment or the homo segment (these are Haynes' labels) and present them like a documentary. Which is interesting, but it's hard to figure out why we're doing it. I can only assume that it has to do with naming, defining and labelling things. So I don't know if I should just manufacture a point for my "documentary" or leave it inconclusive, or make it completely contradictory, like the documentary in the film.
Yes, I am just putting off writing it.
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Date: 2003-09-17 08:57 pm (UTC)