


Want to see what I mean? Take a few minutes to hop over to DailyMotion and watch Duck Amuck and Rabbit Rampage, then come back and let’s talk. Instead, we’re all about structure! What are the mechanics at work in the world of this story that we’re examining and how does the narrative–its characters, its plot, even its physics–reveal the boundaries that the story is functioning within? How are possibilities shaped? Now, I have a background in literary theory, and I’m bringing that eye (and my other eye) to what I’m going to be talking about here, but fear not: I’m more interested in ideas than vocabulary, specific thinkers, or anything else that might take the focus off the films themselves. Hi there! Let’s talk about cinema and film and movies and motion pictures! Or, let’s start this review series by talking about cartoons, which some people might not consider cinema, film, movie, or motion picture!īut first, since this is the inaugural review, we need to talk about how it’s all going to run.ĭo you like snarky movie reviews that tear into every little detail that the writer dislikes, disagrees with, or otherwise disses? Do you like movie reviews that make you wonder why the reviewer would so obviously torture themselves by committing brainpower to write about the piece of detritus being reviewed, let alone sitting through it to begin with?
