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Recently I’ve felt sudden inspiration to watch movies, which I haven’t really done in a decade or so. Over the end of summer and now autumn I’ve watched a lot of them, a lot of classics I haven’t seen before and newer movies I missed during my not-watching-any-movies phase. Last night I watched Singin’ in the Rain (which was a lot of fun btw), and some that I recently also watch include La La Land, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Inglorious Basterds.
One thing that ties all these four movies together is that they are completely or partly about cinema as an art form and those who make it. Singin’ in the Rain is even more extra since it’s a musical about a musical. And actually, in the musical in the musical one of the characters is a vaudeville actor, so it’s like a triple inception thing. And in Singin’ in the Rain (spoilers:) one of the characters is hired to lip-sync for an actress and her not getting the fame and recognition she deserves is a big deal, but in real life the actress who played that person who does the lip-syncing was herself lip-synced by another woman, lmao. Not really related but it’s just funny.
Anyway, what I’m coming to, is I feel like film is the most likely art form to get into this kind of circle jerk. How many books are there about writing books? I can think of ones that are about authors, or are presented as if written by one of the characters, but about the process of writing itself?
A controversial Finnish media personality was interviewed by our biggest news sources and the interviews were published today.
He’s recently been diagnosed and is receiving treatment for bipolar disorder and he has also been diagnosed to have autism. Reminiscing over some bad things he’s done in the past, a journalist asked him “so are you saying it was the illness that did it, not you?”, and I found his answer very interesting: “That’s a tough one. People keep saying you must not hide behind a diagnosis, but what do they think the illness does?”. You can’t exactly decide to exit a state of mania or psychosis, for instance. Loss of control is literally a part of those states.