School has been much more prolific in eating away my free time then I thought it would be. This has caused me to temporarily suspend my blog. Until now. My updates will no longer be as frequent as they once were. It will not be a day-by-day basis that new words will form on the blank canvas of Blogspot, but I am still going to write on this URL. As I type this, I sit in a darkened hotel room in Canada, the Land with No Flaw. Honestly, I can not find one determent to the this northern land. This is not the first time I have visited the city of Vancouver, but each time I come I find new facets that add to the already large pot of greatness. Does that even make sense? I am tiered. I don't even know if I spelled that last word right. I may have just stated that I have become a living rubber sphere. I would be surprised by that turn of events, rest assured. Possibly the greatest additive to Vancouver is its newness. The majority of the high-rises in it rise unblemished by time, glass gleaming in the autumn sun. The concrete on the sidewalks have not been marred by the ebb and flow of earth. Even the manholes still shine. Vancouver, to me, stands as one of the prime examples of a perfect Pacific city. That is not something I can say about Los Angeles.
I saw The Social Network today. Many prominent reviewers call this movie the new Citizen Kane, or the movie that defines our generation. I disagree with the later statement. The last generation-defining movies have been movies that can be applied to a broad audience, that almost all the viewers in that relevant generation can see as a movie about themselves. The Social Network follows a selfish and greedy effigy of Mark Zuckerburg as he ruins almost every life he comes into contact with. I don't think many people can look at that and say that is just like themselves. Sure, you can look deeper into the film and fine themes that apply to your generation, but the average person looking for their defining film will not try to find the subliminal messages that make them apply to the film. The Breakfast Club had many sub-surface thoughts, but in the end was a bunch of eighties kids being eighties kids. Eighties kids could look at that movie and see that kids like them were doing things that they would do. It would be relatable to the core.The Social Network is a terrific movie, but nothing like that. Citizen Kane? Maybe. Generation Defining? No.
