Foreign Movies - What Have You Gained?

Hi,

That literature makes for a more "efficient" environment is no secret ... even Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses that in one of his books. Film, is not good at defining the "internal" person as literature is, so that should not be a surprise. It is also a fact that film is relatively new whereas literature has had many years of works that worked at improving and defining the inner life of a character, which is very different in film, but it can be done, although the attempts at it, have been bizarre, weird, and off the score sheets. I was thinking of "Je Suis Seul" (Gaspar Noe) which is pretty much all "internal" but the film itself is so hard to sit through that half the audience left during the Film Festival ... it is really harsh non stop, which I think is the part that we can't handle very well.

In general, for me, a lot of American films are the fun stuff, and most European films for everything else, since they tend to make you think a lot more than the Hollywood style of "entertainment". So, in this sense I prefer the European and foreign films, but that's not to say that other countries can not be funny ... and many are.