I found this picture the other day and looking at the stuff that used to be on my closet wall really makes me miss black and white movies. I went through a black and white movie phase sometime in senior year of high school. I “dropped” the interest as I got into kpop but my Japanese cinema class this semester is on the black and white cinema era of Japanese film, so it got me nostalgic for b&w American films.
It’s a cliche to say that black and white films were “magical,” but when you watch them, it really does make you feel nostalgic, even though you’ve never lived through the period. Somehow, films from the era have a very straight-forward way of telling stories. They feel honest. They make you want to grab on to something, even if you don’t know what that something is. And that’s a good feeling.
Posted in: film/television - thinking out loud | Tags: Scan of the day, scans
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January 31, 2009, at 5:16 pm
I saw your comment at Nia’s blog.
LOL. Yes I was “wtf” the first time I heard it too. I didn’t know it was derogatory, but at the time I just thought it sounded hella weird. My cousin actually…she doesn’t prefer “oriental” or “Asian,” she just used the word a lot.
Sometimes I hear people use the “orient” to refer to Asia…or “oriental food” for Asian food. Some of the supermarkets here use that word.
^^Regarding your post, classic stuff never gets old. Its like music for me; I sometimes like to listen to really old-school stuff. Nostalgia is right.
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