The_Lone_Apple

The_Lone_Apple t1_ivxoq9z wrote

Every person is different and art is experienced differently by each viewer. This makes me feel a sort of lonely melancholy - but I'm a melancholy person. The looming city. The distance between the viewpoint and the people on the ice. The nostalgia of New York at the holidays. For some reason I'm reminded of the shared experiences we New Yorkers have - the shared memories. Yet there's always that distance between us. That missing personal connection. We all go our own way for most of the year, but it's at the holidays that there is almost a letting down of the guard. That slight reaching out so that we notice each other a little more and seem to want to make connections - even with strangers. Yet it's fleeting.

I told you I was melancholy.

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The_Lone_Apple t1_iu5k4bv wrote

I'll put this under a spoiler bar to be nice to other people. >!In the end, the viewer got taken too. We don't even know what's true or not. The big reveal is us being screwed with as well.!<

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The_Lone_Apple t1_itzvjym wrote

I just care about the fetishization of the rich. From soaps to dramas to reality shows, etc., the obsession with watching rich people do stuff has really made average people into either envious/jealous individuals or delusional into thinking they too can live that lifestyle.

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