13th july, saturday, 2019
dear diary,
Things that make me hate a book or a movie:
1. Hiding the pain behind a smile on pretending everything is okay. I feel that emotions need to be addressed. That's the only way to deal with them. If you need time off, take it. If you need to cry even when you're with someone, do it. That is what I need to see in movies now.
2. Plots where the main character abandons someone they love to "protect" them, but without telling them why they are doing it because that will make things more complicated. So overused.
3. "I chose to be a comedian because behind the laughter I could hide my grief." This is very cliché. If this is happening, I want to know the thought process of the character to understand why he chose this path. There are many other ways of dealing with grief, like immersing yourself in your work or withdrawing from everyone. So I want to know how and why the character chose this particular path. Just hearing this 15-word-sentence isn't enough for me.
I'm leaving some space on this page, I'll come back and add more clichés when they pop into my mind.
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Things that make me love a book/movie:
1. Long after I've finished watching/reading them, the characters stay with me, because that's how real they are. They inhabit my mind. I weave stories with them, I ship them together, I feel for them, I wish they could have had a better ending, etc.
2. A quote/thought that makes me look at the world differently.
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