I once heard that the definition of insanity is doing something over and over and getting the same result – but you keep doing it expecting to get a different result. That’s how I feel about people who tell me that I need to watch a movie again because it takes at least 3 viewings in order to “get it”.
A prime example is the movie Eraserhead. I really didn’t like this movie – it really just annoyed me. I started going around telling people – “Hey, I saw this really bad movie called Eraserhead! Whatever you do don’t watch it!” and little did I know – it’s considered a “classic” so many people have seen it already and told me that it was awesome.
Well, they started saying I needed to watch it something like 3 times in order to “get it” – it’s like telling me to drive a nail through my foot and then telling me to do it again because the next time I would “like it”.
Why waste my time doing something I didn’t like doing the first time? Why? Why? Why?
On a different note - I walked in to see High Fidelity all pissed off because I was just dumped and my friends who said they were going to see it with me ditched me. So, I was alone and pissed off stuck in theater full of couples making out watching a movie about relationships. So, it made a lot of sense that – I HATED IT. But when everyone said how much they loved it – and I realized I hated it because of the circumstances – I rewatched it and liked it.
That’s not the case with Eraserhead – I watched it with and open mind with some friends and got the point – and hated the path to the point. What else could I say? But I should do it again because I would like it if I did it some more? That makes no sense… Are these people insane? Or am I insane?
In heaven – everything is fine… In heaven – everything is fine… You’ve got your good thing and I’ve got mine…
Yeah, sign me up…