Friday, June 09, 2006

People as characters

LongDistanceConversations

I was just listening to Ebert and Roeper's podcast, and I was led to think about flat characters. It seems that some movies portray charters in a stale and "flat' manner. And these movies are rightly criticized for doing that. But many of us, myself especially, are only concerned with the main characters in a film. Maybe that's a symptom of our self-centered nature. It may just be that we're so short-sighted that we can only focus on one person at a time. In life that person just happens to be us.

1 comment:

Anglopressy said...

I don't know if a solution is really what the world needs from people. I think that responses, with the understanding that we can and will go wrong some times is much more appropriate language that solving.