Movie you’re meant to pause
While watching “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” Mira Weisenthal and I got into an argument about whether a single painting deserves as much attention as a movie. Mira believes that art musuems should have only five pieces of art. Each piece of art, after all, merits about two hours of study and contemplation.
I made the perhaps over-obvious point that a single two hour movie could easily contain five paintings, and then have the whole rest of the movie. Mira countered that in a movie, your attention is a slave to the writer and director’s point of view. A painting in a movie will flash on the screen for a few seconds, with little chance for you to appreciate it - not at all equivalent to studying a painting in a musuem.
Unless, I stated in another obvious point, you pause the movie.
And together we had the idea for a movie that you’re intended to pause frequently, because every frame is its own work of art that merits as much attention as an entire movie.
6 years ago