The Best Thing I Learned Today...
...was a quote from Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (21 Grams, Amores perros):
"No one is good or bad, we are just floating in an infinite world of circumstances."
I've decided to write whatever characters I create and write about in the future with that quote as a mantra of sorts. I believe that all people have a bit of good in them (the optimist in me), and at the same time, I think even the most avid church goer can have some iota of evil in there somewhere (the skeptic in me).
The wonderful thing about being human is that we are so tragically flawed. We're free to make our own choices based on the hand dealt to us. Now that I think about it, my character Frank in 'Locked' is a character who is definitely caught up in a specific circumstance (he meets a customer who just so happens to have his address written down on his keychain), and the film shows his take on how he deals with it. In 'Boyfriend Seat', two guys find themselves in an existential discussion over why guys have counter-evolved into becoming mere foot servants who are designated to tragically wait in a corner while their girlfriends shop.
I really like that quote, it should serve as a reminder to me that the best characters are the ones who we ask questions about afterwards, the ones who we don't quite get, the ones who aren't purely good nor evil, the ones who don't end the film knowing all of life's answers.
In other words, people like us.
"No one is good or bad, we are just floating in an infinite world of circumstances."
I've decided to write whatever characters I create and write about in the future with that quote as a mantra of sorts. I believe that all people have a bit of good in them (the optimist in me), and at the same time, I think even the most avid church goer can have some iota of evil in there somewhere (the skeptic in me).
The wonderful thing about being human is that we are so tragically flawed. We're free to make our own choices based on the hand dealt to us. Now that I think about it, my character Frank in 'Locked' is a character who is definitely caught up in a specific circumstance (he meets a customer who just so happens to have his address written down on his keychain), and the film shows his take on how he deals with it. In 'Boyfriend Seat', two guys find themselves in an existential discussion over why guys have counter-evolved into becoming mere foot servants who are designated to tragically wait in a corner while their girlfriends shop.
I really like that quote, it should serve as a reminder to me that the best characters are the ones who we ask questions about afterwards, the ones who we don't quite get, the ones who aren't purely good nor evil, the ones who don't end the film knowing all of life's answers.
In other words, people like us.
posted by Carlo Ledesma at 4:25 AM
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