23rd December 2011, 3:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd December 2011, 5:28 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I dunno, art should be understandable to the masses, otherwise you might as well be speaking in tongues.
For example, while I "get" symbolism most of the time, Eraser Head just left me tilting my head like a kitten hearing a person's voice come out of the answering machine. I know a lot of people consider it a deeply personal journey, but to me that's the problem. Whatever meaning it had to Kubrik was completely lost on me. I couldn't relate. I did relate a lot better to the Kids in the Hall parody of it though. Saaausages.
For example, while I "get" symbolism most of the time, Eraser Head just left me tilting my head like a kitten hearing a person's voice come out of the answering machine. I know a lot of people consider it a deeply personal journey, but to me that's the problem. Whatever meaning it had to Kubrik was completely lost on me. I couldn't relate. I did relate a lot better to the Kids in the Hall parody of it though. Saaausages.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)