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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 849916" data-attributes="member: 812">Honestly, I'm not just picking on you. I swear. But what you said here points to a massive difference in how you and I come to movies.I don't need explanations for physical things. In this movie, people can fly, okay, they can fly. Superman can fly cause the sun is yellow. Sure, whatever. Fine. I'm perfectly happy to watch stories that take place in worlds where the physical laws are not identical to our own, and I don't need the rules explained to me beforehand.What I need to be convinced about are the emotional things. If a character loves another, I need to be convinced. I need to believe. My fundamental problems with both CTHD and The Matrix are based on these sorts of issues. Why does Trinity kiss Neo at the end of the Matrix? It's the stupidest thing ever. Why does anyone not just slap Zhang Zi-yi's character into the middle of next week the first time she opens her mouth? Why would anyone like her or trust her or even want to be anywhere near her?If the emotional engine is running good, I don't care about the physical. This is why I love so many wuxia movies, because they invest so much into the emotional lives of the characters, who are always getting their parents killed, or their sons tortured or whatever.Very different, you and I.Again, it kind of points to identification versus sympathy. In order to think of yourself as LIKE Neo you need to know the rules of the world Neo plays in. Whereas in order to care about Briggite Lin's character in Dragon Inn all you need to do is watch her for ten minutes.Interesting.</blockquote>

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