IsabellaLinton wrote:
Patricia Clarkson is in
Six Feet Under
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I have a very hard time watching or following any movie. I deconstruct them to "Good guy, bad guy, conflict, ending" in my head and all the rest seems superfluous. Most of the time I'm so faceblind I don't know the characters' names, their conflicts are so complicated I have no idea what's happening, and I just wait for a big argument or set of tears, so it can be over. I'm really quite lost when it comes to duplicity or predicting and understanding motive for characters.
I used to get confused at the simplest stories, like "Sleeping Beauty" (Disney). I'd be singing along with Aurora when suddenly there would be dragons and witches and death matches. I was like, "????! ! ! !"
In short, I'm not the person to ask about films. There are very few I totally understand (Lion King, Dead Poets, most Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart).
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Sorry, throwing this out of sequence a bit..
IsabellaLinton,
Do you find the same difficulty of following characters, etc., while reading books? I'm wondering because although I can follow characters in film and books fairly well, I still have a rough time remembering names, in books, film, or in reality.