(10/02/2011 05:26 AM)Assassinator Wrote: (10/02/2011 04:46 AM)S7* Wrote: How often do you ask "Why?" when you feel emotions? To you - is it even worth contemplating other peoples feelings - even if it is just the question "Why do they feel that way"?
First one, hardly ever.
Second one, sort of yes, but not really anything beyond "Why do they feel that way".
That's interesting to me.. I mean I saw some of my favourite titles when I was a hikikomori - confining myself to my bedroom for several hours at a time to watch anime or listen to music and I felt a bit like a younger Satou from Welcome to the NHK in as much as never leaving the house unless I had to, and I didn't go to school or anything like that so I didn't go out often, if at all at that point.
It was at this point I watched a good portion of my watched list and the ones that felt extra special - Kanon and Elfen Lied - had a strong emotional effect on me. I won't hide the fact I cried in both cases - because I did. Maybe it was because I created emotional connections with the characters I watched because other than my family, who I wasn't communicating with at a deep level much at the time, I had no other connections and felt the need to know these characters I've seen.
Now, I've grown to be more outgoing and social since, but I've still been effected greatly by Kanon (rewatch), not so much Elfen Lied (rewatch) but Clannad in it's entirety made me feel the same way Kinoko Nasu did in as much as saying "I’ll make this my family heirloom." It felt special to me.. and there are quite a few I've seen since that had that
personal affect.
The curious thing is how the better titles, the real minority of them, effected me before and after... in different states of mind... before and after I cared about myself let alone anybody else.
I think the way you are, with yourself or with others,
can be related to the way you enjoy certain titles. Especially ones that rely on emotions and feelings so much.
Funnily enough, it's because of this I hated Angel Beats - more so than most - because I felt the end was so fake and artificial that it made me hate it. The "convenient ending" is surely, more often than not, the one that a writer uses as an excuse to end the story.. and that, to me, is like giving up. If the writer is trying to write something meaningful, the feeling must remain consistently progressive as breaks or jumps in the flow without explanation destroy the illusion of a believable character - and believable characters are, of course, a critical part of a believable story. And if the writer is successful creating believable characters and story, the connection between the viewer and the title probably becomes meaningful.
Perhaps there are different kinds of people, kinds that can easily accept that characters and story, and a kind who find it hard. And that's a formula to explain enjoyment - that is if meaningful stories are equivalent to enjoyment.
Sorry for the long post. v.v
(10/02/2011 05:26 AM)Assassinator Wrote: (10/02/2011 04:46 AM)S7* Wrote: It's hard for me to say anything further other than - it's really up to you - what you want to care about and consider.. but the most important ones are of course those related to your self.
Ofcourse.
What I meant in the other post is, I have a feeling that only people who truly contemplated stuff like that can understand the true value within works such as this (ok, not "only", but they have a much increased probability compared to others). In a similar sense to how some pieces of art (that aren't blindingly obvious) may take another artist to truly appreciate. So you rated it 10, but I can't really give it anything more than a 6 or 7.
I'll probably watch it again and decide to bring it down. But at the time it felt like a 10 to me. What else is it if I can't say what what was wrong with it? It was beautiful, meaningful and an interesting reflection on the two characters wee've learnt about over the 7 films, let alone the third, of whom had this incredibly deep reflection upon herself as a whole that touched upon some thoughts of a true understanding of oneself that I'm sure many people crave. But even she discarded her own thoughts at one point and that struck me - what use is contemplating an idea so vast as the ones discussed - personality, intelligence and the 'self' that creates and contains it? How will it help? It helps because wee want to accept ourselves for who wee are, and she wanted to explain herself to someone else, so maybe she did understand herself. Nothingness understood everything... because everything was nothing.
I could go on, but I was running through just slices of some of the things she said and just contemplated on and on... and I was thankful for it. That's why I rated it a 10.
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