Tideland & blogging

[salinea]

Blogging can be such an odd thing to do. What you write about. How you write it. All the various kind of things you write that end up there in public or not, all mixed up the fics with the icons with the rants with the essays with the day-to-day enigmatic tibits.

wonder what kind of image people have of me based on what I write. Is it faithful or very biased ? How does it compare with what people who know me in real, who listen to me talk very-very fast and laugh a lot and stumble over anything and hop along when I'm in the mood, see me ?

Is it a very spare idea ?

Do you feel like you know me at all ? (Do I know any of you at all ?)

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I saw Tideland by Terry Gilliam on Thursday. I'm a bit amazed how Gilliam's movies don't actually make any buzz on Livejournal. I mean, come on, Terry Gilliam ! Brazil ! 12 monkeys ! All the Monthy Python stuff ! You'd think it'd be first grade Geek culture.

Anyway, Tideland was amazing. It's a pretty weird story that gets into a little girl's head as she lives all by herself because her parents are junkies (there's these really disturbing scene in the beginning where she prepares the heroin shot for her father and makes sure he doesn't burn the house with his cigarette). It's almost all the little girl's games and play; and it absolutely captures something about childhood. A candidness that's both innocent and terrifying. The movie's full of images that beautiful and horrific, sordid, grotesque and wonderful.

And the music's very good, I need to find it.

I wonder how it compares to the book.

Comments

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

Do you feel like you know me at all ? (Do I know any of you at all ?)

That's a good question. Both of them. In a sense.....people probably do, at least the part that you show to them. But that's not all of you, is it? But then, people in real life are usually shown an entirely different side which isn't all of you either, I bet. In the end no one shows every part of themselves to everyone.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's always the question about how much you know anybody at all.

The thing I'm wondering is, how much do you show of yourself and how much don't you when you relate with people over a blog ?

In RL they are thing that you show that you can't control totally : the way you speak, move, behave in general.

In writing, you feel like you control a lot more, but at the same time there's also plenty of revealing things - except in a different ways. There's also all the things you eveal because you feel safer to tell it to people you (in all likelihood) will never meet.

We always construct what we see of others. I'm wondering how different those constructs are depending on what we interract with them through.

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

In RL they are thing that you show that you can't control totally : the way you speak, move, behave in general.

You can though. Let me give you an example from my own life - my mother often asks me why I am always so serious and never laughing. On the other hand a friend from school asks if I ever AM serious and why am I constantly laughing.

We always construct what we see of others. I'm wondering how different those constructs are depending on what we interract with them through.

Well...probably IRL you are judged by the way you look, first. On the net though it's more how you write, what you write about and what kind of words you are using. So in a sense, if you aren't trying to actively change the way you are preceived, opinion's of people who only know you on-line will be more true. But that depends though, I suppose.

I'm not being helpful, am I? XD

[azure-empress.livejournal.com]

Even between friends there is much there is hidden. I know friendships as the process where more is gradually revealed.

No, I do not know you, but the learning is what matters.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That's such a beautiful way to say it ♥ thank you.