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i felt like my flounder needed a place for me to rant about what im reading or watching or thinking about so that i don't clutter up my journal with it. enjoy :)
7/17/2023: hellspawn short film
* spoilers ahead *
i used to watch shortoftheweek short films for a class i was in my freshman year of college and i still poke around there sometimes. hellspawn seemed like a straightforward, slow video to start to fall asleep to, but i was kinda startled by the meta-analysis scene around the 4:20 mark (lol). i honestly didn't love the horror scenes (w the raven gore and the scream-crying)-- i really like some horror but i just found this horror corny.
towards the end, one of the narrators talk about the effect of a 98% rotten tomatoes rating (but they're british so it's rotten tomAHtoes) and how it sucks to be that close to Perfection and fall short, but the true metric of creating something great is internal. it almost made me wonder-- was the corniness in the horror intentional? was it supposed to exist just for the creators' internal metrics of success? or am i reading too much into it.
overall i thought the message was that the conflict of creating any art is having to compromise profit incentive with vision, and both can't really be compromised if you want to live and also create honest art. i think there was also something about gender as well-- the performers and vulnerable, struggling artists were women, and the people in power in the studios were men. hmm
im convinced that the best feeling you can have with any piece of film is going into it with low expectations and being surprised with depth. it tickles the same part of my brain as solving a riddle, and this film did that for me. cool watch. lmk what u think <3