Sydney Powell-Week 5 analysis

This weekend is spent most of my time watching old movies with friends and pretending like i didn't have other work to do. The movie list included Magic Mike, White Chicks, High School Musical, Rent and Sweeney Todd and were watched one right after another.. From the list of films Rent stood out to me the most when watching it cause it brought me back to the time when I first watched it with my parents at a young age and not understanding the plot and just enjoying the film for its catchy songs.It also made me reflect on my own place in time and seeing how similar in age I am to the characters. Now I'm watching it with the same catchy songs but understanding the characters emotions and pieces of the plot due to my own personal life experiences and education I've have. I think when writing my response I had a lot of questions about when I first watched the film, when my brain made the connections and why my parents let me watch it at a young age. I used the responses to ask these questions but to also give my own answers and perspective by just continuing the thought in my head and filling it out. I also got interested in the idea that as kids we will be exposed to films but we won't understand their meaning until later in life.When we rewatch the film again our brains remember the film but then fills in the points that we missed, filled with our current knowledge of the world and how society works.

I enjoy in Maggie Nelsons Bluets the never ending expansion of a single thought and the continuous motions that it creates and tried to recreate that feeling in my own response. Her love for the color blue is the overall thought but she brings in many different ideas and questions that stem from her love for the color blue. In the beginning she questions her love and how it felt when she identified blue as her favorite color. That's why I really enjoy the first bullet because it sets up the whole scene and kinda gives the entire book the proper roots it needs to create the idea. The first bullet reads “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were a confession; suppose I shredded my napkin as we spoke. It began slowly. An appreciation, an affinity. Then, one day, it became more serious. Then (looking into an empty teacup, its bottom stained with thin brown excrement coiled into the shape of a seahorse) it became somehow personal. I really find that the first bullet stood out to me cause it showed that the book was gonna go into the story of how blue became her favorite color and why it happened, giving us an opening that keeps us interested and questioning alongside the author. I tried to recreate this kinda tone of questioning my own response so it could open up a call and answer effect in my own piece in response to the film Rent. I made me realize that a lot of the questions we ask ourselves we are capable of taking our own answers as responses.