A story about a small fear that I have.
John sits in front of his computer
screen. His eyes forcefully glued to the movie that is playing. He is watching
a film called Run Lola Run which about a girl who has a superpower to
redo parts of her life. For those of you who are wondering, he is not watching
this for his own personal enjoyment; it’s for his English 105 class. Run
Lola Run seems to be paradigm of the Dialectical essay in movie form.
John
thinks to himself, This film really is a
masterpiece, but it is just too darn confusing… The English class that John is taking actually
makes him think. This is both a horrifying and delightful prospect to John.
Yesterday,
he showed part of his essay to his teacher, Mrs. D, “I did my essay on love and
my thesis is about ‘Lola winning by having her love for Manni grow’ and the
antithesis is about ‘Lola losing by having her love for Manni diminish’. My
only problem is…”
“Hold it right there.” Mrs. D. interrupted. She then
proceeded in telling him, “I don’t think you can really measure her love for
Manni growing…” Mrs. D. went on and on, but basically she was telling John that
he needed to re-do his work.
All
kinds and shapes of four letter words came out John’s mouth as he trekked up
the hill to his dorm. John calmed himself down and started exploring his anger.
No, he wasn’t angry at the teacher; John was angry at the thought of having to
re-do all of his work. Then it hit him. The entire film was about Lola being
able to redo parts of her life to search for the best ending. The other kids in
his class agreed that the power of replay was something to be envied,
“Seriously, why can’t we redo some parts of our life.” John may have found the
answer.
It could be because we are all subconsciously
lazy and we truly do not want to relive our past. As humans we all search for
the next new thing, a constant quest for newfangled entertainment. We are
horrified at the thought of reliving our past because it may bore us.
And this was the beginning of John’s exploration into the
realm of philosophy.
© Copyright by Kurihi Chargualaf
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Interesting
Written by Snodlander (507 comments posted) 30th April 2008 |
An interesting concept. Is the film a genuine one? I remember a film about a guy that keeps travelling back in time, trying to save the girl he loves, but instead makes it worse each time. I thought that the story was going to have John travelling back to re-do his essay.
Run Lola Run seems to be paradigm of the Dialectical essay in movie form. - loved this line. No idea what it means, but it's just the sort of thing my student daughter says.
I suspect the real answer we don't redo parts of our lives is that it's physically impossible, but that may just prove I'm no philosopher.
I found the tense a little confusing. It starts in the present, but then moves to the past. The last line is still in the past, so I'm confused whether the first para happened after the last.
hope this helps. |
Lola runs
Written by Emmuttmax (203 comments posted) 30th April 2008 |
Kurihi,
I believe this would be better if it were all written in the past tense. As it stands, it is confusing.
The concept is good, but the exposition falters when you address the reader: "In case you were wondering,...." Why would the reader be wondering why John was watching the movie? "No, he wasn't angry at the teacher." Again, that is addressing the reader, who never asks the question. The "no" should be deleted.
Just a minor nit, but when you end a sentence with an ellipses (...) it needs to be followed by the proper punctuation, either a period (....) or question mark (?).
It was a though-provoking piece. By the way, I liked Run Lola Run. |
Written by Kurihi (7 comments posted) 1st May 2008 |
| Thank you for the comments and advice. |
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