{"id":4122,"date":"2005-04-10T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/04\/10\/film-freaks\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:32:32","slug":"film-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/04\/10\/film-freaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3059'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After my previous post about one of the men in the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopfilmworks.com\/film\/projects\/cinemania\/\">Cinemania<\/a>,<br \/>\nI got the film from Neflix, and I loved it. It&#8217;s really a well-made<br \/>\ndocumentary&#8211;I&#8217;ve watched it three times over the past couple of days.<br \/>\nI am fascinated by these obsessives who are pefectly happy with their<br \/>\ndeviant lifestyle. &#8220;Film is a substitute for life. Film is a form of<br \/>\nliving,&#8221; one of them says, happily. Another says film is better than<br \/>\nsex, better than love. He has been arrested for shoving a woman to the<br \/>\nground when she came in late to a movie and was obstructing his view.<br \/>\nHe also says you have the right to do anything, including murder, to<br \/>\nstop someone from disturbing your film experience. &#8220;Killing someone<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t a practical solution though,&#8221; he says, &#8220;because after the movie,<br \/>\nor even before the movie&#8217;s over, you&#8217;ll get arrested.&#8221; The only woman<br \/>\nprofiled in the film has been banned from MoMA for lunging at the<br \/>\nthroat of a ticket-taker. They all see 2-5 films every single day. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nall they do. They all live in hovels that are spilling over with books<br \/>\nand trash and movie posters. No wonder they spend so much time at the<br \/>\ntheater, I wouldn&#8217;t want to stay in those apartments very long either.<br \/>\nThey all also clearly have some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder<br \/>\nand a strong aversion to reality. But there is something endearing<br \/>\nabout all of them. For some reason I find it comforting to watch the<br \/>\nstories of people who own their antisocial personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the interesting characters, the film itself is very<br \/>\nwell-made. New York City, and particularly its subway system, becomes a<br \/>\ncharacter in itself, and you begin to think that this is the only place<br \/>\nwhere people like this could exist. I know a couple of them in Boston,<br \/>\nthough. And I much prefer being able to get inside their world from the<br \/>\ndistance of a movie screen rather than in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8211;great credit sequence and original theme song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my previous post about one of the men in the documentary Cinemania, I got the film from Neflix, and I loved it. It&#8217;s really a well-made documentary&#8211;I&#8217;ve watched it three times over the past couple of days. I am fascinated by these obsessives who are pefectly happy with their deviant lifestyle. &#8220;Film is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-14u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}