So over Thanksgiving break I was visiting family and while talking with my cousin who is an engineer the subject of what I was studying in college came up. After telling my cousin that I was a film major and a philosophy minor he proceeded to tell me how he thought those were both dumb, worthless areas of study. Basically he believes anything that is not engineering is dumb. This frustrated me and I got very defensive of my passion.
You know what I realized from this ordeal? That all knowledge should be respected, not just that which is interesting to you. I personally have no interest in nursing, but I respect that as an area of knowledge.
How does this relate to film? Well I realized that this logic can be carried over into film. Earlier this semester we watched some movies that I didn't like and I treated them like my cousin treated my college study. With disdain and dismissiveness. I figured that there was nothing I could learn from the videos. That is arrogant and says that only what I'm interested in matters. But this is not true. All film styles matter.
I need to learn this and adopt it as a maxim in life if I ever want to go far in film. You can't enjoy your genre. You have to have a broad range of experience. You should respect all forms of film.
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