thank goodness. I would add that reading has larger difficult curve that other mediums dont, its a lot of work for someone to read Tolstoy if they havent built up the skill and casual reading would definitely help. For arthouse and film cannon you might not get exactly what its on about but all you have to do is sit there for a couple hours and you did it.
I didn't say they were, but the Goodreads fans did. I would say on average the people here are smarter than typical Americans.
It is the same thing. You can watch Jeanne Dielman and get nothing out of it the same way you can read Tolstoy and get nothing out of it.
The hunger games book series has been out since 2008 and is widely popular for nostalgia and new younger readers getting into it, so I am not shocked it was voted as a top rated book on a social media book app lol
Its not the same and id argue sitting through and not getting it is part of experiencing art. Every marvel movie/trash crime novel is going to do the same thing but with art sometime you get nothing and sometimes you'll get something you had no idea could exist
You are assuming the person watching has an open mind is willing to try. Plenty of people might have to endure it but they are fighting against it like a child eating vegetables.
I think it all goes back to this, although I wanna press wharf to go deeper into that second sentence.
Shows what I know, I guess I assumed that over a certain age people just aren't using apps like the younger age groups do
Coincidentally, Letterboxd just put out a similar list of their own. Letterboxd has far less users than Goodreads and has a lot of its own individual quirks from its primarily millennial-zoomer userbase, but Harakiri is a perfectly respectable top film. It isn't like they picked Cars 2.
I think Goodreads was a literature nerd/older person app until the rise of what Jonathan is talking about came into popularity ~ 3-4 years ago
sure but if i was tasked to try and open someone's mind my advice would still be sit through the greats and see what happens
Literacy, endurance and reading skills need to be built over time, but so does the ability to analyze cinema. You shouldn’t jump in the deep end with either, imo, but that doesn’t mean you should live in the kiddle pool filled with piss
But would you start them off slow? I think there are unofficial tiers to everything. If someone only knew Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars I would not start with jazz improvisation.
I’ve been on goodreads for about 7-8 years and don’t think it’s really ever changed whether Tik tok existed or not. It pushes popular, “easier” reads to the top and you need to find your followers or books you like to have it catered towards you. This is also something which exists on Tik Tok, too. It’s not just the Court of Roses Sarah Maas series lol. I follow many people who recommend great stories between classics and new literature. And if people do like to read those corny easy reads …. I just don’t think it’s a problem where many, many, many people in my life are too busy to even sit down and try to read a page.
Id try to curate based on the person but of if I ran a class of 10 films id chuck in some wild cards.