the groundhog day project

And, I have decided to go backward for the remaining/additional movie life list movies. So, let us jump forward to 1992... -ish. Really, since we saw this movie at the second-run theater with a movie released in April 1993, we're jumping forward to 1993. And, I'm a senior in high school In the theaters, we saw Strictly Ballroom alongside Benny & Joon , but, while Strictly Ballroom made it into our home and got watched a bunch more times by us and by visiting friends, Benny & Joon did not. At least not as much. And, maybe I'm delusional about the whole thing because Strictly Ballroom is not even on our family "movie list" last updated by me 8 June 1999. So, who knows? Either way, I'm watching Strictly Ballroom today as I work my way backward through a few other fixture movies to, you know, encapsulate my childhood, or something. Baz Luhrmann's first film. Some nobody from Australia. A romance about ballroom dancing. But, we loved it. ...

Freud will have to continue a little bit for a couple reasons: 1) there is bit more to say about Freud before I inject some Lacan and 2) I realized that Mulvey doesn't include Jung, so in terms of my paper not being a research paper but an analytical piece based around the supplied readings, I shall leave Jung out of it... even if there may be useful things to say; for instance, much of what Mulvey is trying to argue about how Freudian psychoanalysis connects with common cinematic representation fits with the Jungian idea of the collective unconscious . Effectively, however much a filmmaker intends to put psychoanalytic concepts into a film, they go in anyway. And, even divergent concepts, arguably, exist within film not necessarily because a filmmaker may deliberately be trying to diverge from the norm but unconsciously. But anyway, Freud... Another Freudian idea central to our experience of film, according to Mulvey, is scopophilia , looking as a source of pleasure. The voyeu...