merry christmas!

today is christmas day. i spent last night with my dad and today with my mom. i am waiting to leave for my aunts for dinner.

as it shows on my blog, i am reading inception and philosophy. i'm enjoying it so far. i really like the ideas that are being discussed in the book. in an essay written by andrew terjesen he talks about critics and how they didn't seem to understand the movie. and as you may or may not know, i hate critics. they are a bunch of pompous assh*les. they think that they know everything when really they have no idea what the writer was trying to do. so there is a paragraph that mr terjesen wrote that i just had to share with everyone.

"for almost all of us, thinking that we are watching something that could really happen is enough to engage our emotions. for some reason, though, a number of critics find it much easier to relate to a story of a family trying to move on after their pedophile father has been released from jail (part of the plot of life during wartime) than the story of a man trying to forgive himself for past mistakes and return to his children [inception]. this shows us that what engages us depends entirely on what we choose to focus on in a fictional story. some critics were much more interested in the nihilistic and dark themes of solondz's film [life during wartime] than they were in the more uplifting resolution of nolan's film [inception]. it's probably not a coincidence that the superhero film that has received the best overall critical response was nolan's own the dark knight, with its morality in shades of gray and tragic ending. a lot of critics must not lead a very happy lives.''