Post Class 2/28

Well I don’t have much to respond to considering we had an exam and Tuesday is a bit of a blur now. I wish we had been able to get into a deeper discussion of Memento on Tuesday. I was extremely surprised by that movie. Going in I had very low expectations and was not planning on being the least bit entertained.  However, when I left I was very pleased with what I saw. The underlying theories on reality versus actuality were astounding. I did not expect it to be presented in such a way. The acting was nothing brilliant, but it didn’t allow me to disengage with the film either. As soon as it was over I instantly realized just how interested I am in this sort of theory. When it is presented in this way I find it so much easier to engage in. My mind was racing with questions and ideas the entire time. If this were presented to us as a thirty-page article filled with fluff and redundancy and references we don’t know, I would be much less excited about it. This is why I posted about writing last week. I felt compelled to do so after reading Habermas. I particularly enjoyed Habermas’ notion of the public sphere, as we discussed in CMC 100, but going through that article was torture.