Filler

I know I'm going to regret not going to bed right now, but the sleepiness that I felt while I was taking care of my laundry has disappeared, and I guess I'm writing this down to try and occupy myself before it comes creeping back. Not that I don't have anything more productive to do, mind. But yeah, who chooses to do the productive thing at 3 AM anyway?

So I said I'd write about "My Terrorist" and "My Land Zion" of Yulie Gerstel. The films won a lot of awards and are now apparently being shown all over. If you're interested, just Google the terms. I'm too lazy to hyperlink any of the stuff here. Anyway, all I really wanted to say was that I couldn't tell if I was watching a documentary or a 'film starring Yulie.' How much of it was contrived and how much of it was genuine? I'm not sure, but I think I was the only one in the audience who approached the film that way. A lively discussion erupted after the filming, with the audience really getting into the content and asking Yulie all sorts of questions about it. And the only thing I could think how I couldn't lose myself in what she was saying because my disbelief wasn't suspended.

And where that's concerned, I don't know if that's because I am just too disbelieving or because her films didn't really suspend disbelief that well. But that said, they did raise interesting points and shed light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a new way. On the suspension of disbelief, though, I finally understand, in a deeper way, what my Creative Writing teachers have been trying to tell me in their classes. You can't communicate effectively if your medium prevents people from getting into your story. It makes sense, methinks. That's definitely something to keep in mind once I actually write something.

Okay, I'm getting sleepy again. I wish I could write more about the interesting things that have happened to me so far. I'm quite abashed to note that my most recent entries do give the impression that all I've done here is think and whine. That's not true at all, but I won't get into that right now because I'm all too happy to walk away from the battle to stay awake. I'll save that story for another time. It's off to bed for me.