HM. Today I wore my Potential Freshman costume and everyone asked me if I had a job interview or something. We watched Il Posto in film class and I freaked out heavily about how good it was. We're talking... talking too fast to be understood about specific shots to someone who has not seen the movie and doesn't care about film. She was nice about it, though? In two of my classes (the film class and my crazy psych/philosophy class) students got in insanely complex arguments with the professors with a lot of words I didn't understand
"the ontological quality of the film... really precludes classifying it as neorealist. Doesn't the teleology contradict the supposed ideological underpinnings?"
"well, really, the issue of personhood vis-a-vis biographical self-concept can't really be applied without considering theory of mind, as well as self-consciousness... in a way that necessarily excludes merely sentient animals."
Um, I had a huge crush on the girl in Il Posto. Not a girl in my class-- the character in the movie.