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so i watched Singles and i quite enjoyed it. it was a nice film to watch which made me feel good in the end. it bought the point across the tumultuousness of love and it's unpredictability.

i'm trying not to analyse things so much any more, so i can enjoy things much more as they are, rather than my tendency to 'reason out' things so they lose all their fun and superficiality.

i think this ordeal with superficiality needs addressing. i used to believe that caring about how you look and how things 'look' was 'shallow' and 'superficial'. i don't think 'superficial' should be a derogatory word. we all lead our lives, and this opportunity only presents itself once, so to make judgements on whether something is 'superficial' or 'shallow' is ironically 'superficial'. people like looking at pretty things, people like dressing up in pretty clothes, and people like those things because it makes everyone happy looking a pretty things. there is nothing wrong it and you should mind your own business.

my world view has changed, going from one of those 'too good for his boots', 'better than everyone else' politically left person, to someone who understands the world much better and the value of life much better politically left person. this has been the biggest change that has occurred to me over the past 6 years.

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sometime over the coming days, carrying on with my dreamy imagination of high school life in 80's & 90's america, i'll be watching Adventureland.

yes i know the film came out last year, but the reading the film synopsis gives the film an 80's & 90's feel.

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i was just thinking about 'enjoying' films. for example, i enjoyed watching Toy Story, but it is not the same as saying i enjoyed Schindler's List or No country for Old Men. how do we differentiate the two types of film? i've decided to put them into two categories: emotionally stimulating films, and intellectually stimulating films.

emotionally stimulating films are the films that grip you emotionally, they either makes you cry, or make you happy, or put you on the edge of your seat with some gripping action.

intellectually stimulating films are the type of films which are usually character driven and deal with various issues and themes. the often require to consciously think during the film as to the relevance of what is happening or make you think about how certain issue ties in with the general theme(s) of the film.

of course there is MASSIVE crossover between the two, but this post was largely written because i couldn't understand how i could use the word 'enjoy' to describe two very different types of films, and why sometimes (like now) i only want to watch only one of the two aforementioned types of films.