"The Irishman" & genre snobbery
Dec. 24th, 2019 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwaneLast night my spouse and I went to go see The Irishman on the big screen at our local museum/arthouse cinema.
It's a mob movie. I knew that going in but I didn't do what I should have done, which is accept the genre of the film I was seeing. So my immediate reactions afterward were grumbling about what other stuff Scorsese could have done that would have been "more interesting," instead of (as I am doing now) reflecting on what was happening within the constraints of the genre.
I'm used to people doing that with genres I enjoy (such as romance and scifi); it was bracing to recognize that I'd just done it myself.
It's a mob movie. I knew that going in but I didn't do what I should have done, which is accept the genre of the film I was seeing. So my immediate reactions afterward were grumbling about what other stuff Scorsese could have done that would have been "more interesting," instead of (as I am doing now) reflecting on what was happening within the constraints of the genre.
I'm used to people doing that with genres I enjoy (such as romance and scifi); it was bracing to recognize that I'd just done it myself.
