Don't know if you have seen Amelie?
It's set in a dream of a Paris that may or may not exist, and it's a story about a girl growing up. What stroke me watching it was the interpretations made in the movie. Made me start to wonder what the world really is like. Maybe good and evil isn't as much the acts in them selves, not that some acts doesn't scream about egotism and inability of empathy, but in a greater perspective the way we choose to revile ourselves in them. Take a porn movie for example, then take those condemning those being in it, who turns the blinder eye?
The same story can change character just from being told by a different person, how is that possible? So, if we look at that thought up 'porn movie' again,( no, not Amelie :) , and then make a thought experiment, letting three different people tell about it what would we hear? One might look at it form the standpoint of 'using it' for personal gratification, another might look on it from the 'depravity' of those involved in making, and playing, it, a third may choose to see the humans in them, no different from any other humans on this world.
So, what is good and evil?
Are the worse kind the acts, or are the worse kind those unable to see the humans in them?
Another example could be the poor, and those condemning such.
Just made me wonder :)
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Narrative Fallacy
We have what is known as limited ability to look at a series of facts without weaving our interpretation into them.
As writers, we think we're writing "a" story, when in reality we are writing many stories for many different readers.
We should never be frustrated by readers who totally misconstrue our tale, as that is not only their right, but their absolute need.
This applies to all facets of life. We bring our bias to whatever it is we are judging.
Years ago TASS, the Soviet News Agency, reported on a two-car race between a Russian automobile and a car made in the United States. The US car won handily. TASS reported the story as, "Soviet car takes second in international race, while US entry finishes second to last."
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I've heard this one
However I always considered this illustration a joke, not a real occurence.
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
When ...
... the schooner America won the cup which was to take her name in a race round the Isle of Wight in 1851, Queen Victoria asked how the race was going. At that point America was well ahead and the flunkey reported that " ... America is leading, your Majesty, there is no second." In fact Aurora, a much smaller, and hence slower, yacht was second at the finishing line and would nowadays have won on handicap.
Amelie is a delightful film and I strongly recommend it. There are all kinds of innocent confusions but I've never thought it as contrasting good and evil. I saw it on DVD the only time I visited a dear TS friend who lives too far away to see often. We regularly speak on the phone never the less. Amelie inevitably remind me of her.
Robi
If you like French films
try, Ma vie en Rose, which is about a tg child. It brought tears to my eyes.
Angharad
Angharad