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Sally Rooney's Normal People: chronicle of a failed read. What did I miss?

(2) Michael's Italian Restaurant 🤌 on X: "this line may be the most definitive thing i’ve ever experienced from a television show. It rings in my ear in daily life and reveals itself to be true again and again. https://t.co/zuNeTIEWE6" / X

re: Anora, i feel like some films are more akin to novels, while others to short stories. Often short stories craft a glimpse or vignette of someone where the reader is expected to work to pull the “interiority” from the character from the intentional but limited context

Criticizing a film about lower class characters because it defines them by circumstances and/or plot mechanics instead of giving them any sense of interiority is a bit tricky. There should be a question of what the film is exactly doing with that choice rather than dismissing it.

Stephen King has been angry at the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining for over 40 years because King saw Jack Torrance as a tragically flawed but decent guy while Kubrick saw the character's actions as those of a narcissistic monster who merely thinks he's a good husband & father.

in Breaking Bad season 1 Walter White was written to be a desperate but ultimately good family man in a bad situation. Vince Gilligan has spoken about how he was convinced otherwise by others working on the show and took the show in a different directions as a result