I don't know if this is a ME problem or if others have this. I really struggle to keep engaged and attentive to a movie whose only genre is drama or drama/romance. There are scores of movies considered some of the best of all time that fall in those categories, but I have no initiative to see them, which i HATE.
Quick example: There's a movie called Yi Yi, considered one of the greatest films of this century. On Letterboxd, the average rating is 4.3/5, and the synopsis it gives is: "Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life’s meaning as they live through everyday quandaries."
So the movie, I assume, is good, at least in the opinions of the vast majority of people, but I have NO drive to see it whatsoever, even though a lot of the time I gravitate towards ones that are so highly thought of (hence the title referencing me watching In the Mood for Love). ITMFL is a gorgeous looking movie which I appreciated, but aside from making a movie look great, what can a movie with a (generally speaking) dull premise such as a couple people possibly falling in love or about family tension and drama actually do?
I feel like a total loser in terms of understanding film still. And it's not like I fill my time with Transformers and other blockbusters, but when it's just straight drama, I feel like I'm missing out on so much great stuff.
Idk what to ask -- has anyone else felt this way in the past or currently? I guess I'm just hoping for some advice or guidance, or for someone who used to feel like this to tell me how they got out of it. At the end, pretty much all I want is to understand the great pleasure people get from these dramas with dry stories so I can expand my tastes to include those as well and appreciate them the way so many others do.
Sorry for the rant, it's just been very frustrating for me.
Submitted June 01, 2018 at 07:25AM by thejubbler https://ift.tt/2Lbitpe
