Kelsey Garegnani
I thought it was very interesting when we talked the other day about CS Lewis's toy garden. It really simplified how some times a reflection of real life can can affect us more powerfully than the real deal. When we are in life we fail to notice the subtle beauty and lessons it has to offer but reflections of these things in art highlight them to us. By focusing on one aspect of beauty or emotion art let us stop being bombarde with all the messages we're in taking everyday and let ourselves be hit by one in particular. One way I saw this recently was through the movie 500 Days of Summer. It might be debatable if movies are art but i think cinematography is so ill still use it as an example. The movie tells of a love story where you feel apart of the relationship and feel that its perfect. When it ends, you, as a viewer, are crushed! You feel like its not fair and you thought that it was going to be happily ever after. But then as it keeps going you start to see the guy moving on and in the ends he meets another girl...and even though you don't know what happens it ends in hope. While it sounds like a depressing movie I think it showed the intricacy and emotion of a relationship and a break up because you feel apart of it. The movie makes you go through all the emotion of the guy in the movie, wanting the relationship, thinking its perfect, thinking its not fair that it ended... and then the hope of something better. This happens every day in our lives and the lives of others but we don't stop to notice or learn anything from it. The movie, though, put you in such a position that the message and the emotion draws you into what it wants to show you so that you can see something in a new way.
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