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oh fun!

i personally like it when there's word of god from the creator. just because a creator had one interpretation behind their work doesn't mean there can't be other interpretations! works can hold more than one meaning. but most creators have reasons why they do what they do (even if it's just "i like daisies"), and i find it fun to read up on them even if i disagree.

plus there's a mysticism that surrounds creating books or whatever, that art just sort of ~mysteriously happens~ and nobody can explain that shit. tbh that bothers me a bit, so i like to read about people's though processes in making stuff.

i like reading the creator's thought process of why they did what they did too! even if it's "i just felt like it" or "i like it" is their reason, it still leaves open the interpretation of whatever the viewer/reader/player/etc is thinking because there is never a one singular interpretation

sometimes i like the mysticism too! but only if it's done right and not "i actually had no reason for it so i'm just going to say that it's whatever they want it to be because of that and pretend to be all mysterious with it" very few people can actually pull it off right

exactly! in rp it's a little different because people are concerned with being consistent with castmates, but it's always interesting to see different people's interpretations.

do you have any examples of people doing the mysticism right instead of po-mo "here is a toilet therefore art"? i'd like to look into it!

sometimes different interpretations of characters amongst castmates really work out if it's handled well enough, but... it really depends on the person/group of people and if they can maturely agree on the different interpretations

ingmar bergman & andrei tarkovsky are both great directors who add a lot of mysticism in their works without making it too overbearing (bergman especially). i hear robert bresson falls into the category too, but i haven't seen any of his works yet!

and i know he's pretty popular, but haruki murakami is always a great go-to for those kinds of things. there is something charming about how he doesn't explain some things and just... lets it be. he really catches the mysticism of imagination and ambiguousness of life itself while keeping it in line with simple imagery. when you finish his books you sort of feel like you understand what happened without trying to add too much to it

'magical realism' is the genre term for it, an otherwise mundane world with mystical things in it that aren't in your face and are a part of the world and how the character interacts with it

oh, thank you! i've heard a lot about bergman and tarkovsky in particular but never watched them. i guess i should change that! adds everyone to my list

do you know if any of them made nonfiction/meta/commentary on creating, by any chance? i'm a sucker for that stuff.

bergman is probably one of the biggest directors who actively and openly talked about his work and why a majority of them were based on his personal fears while heavily leaning on the mysticism in it. there's a 90 minute documentary called "ingmar bergman on life and work" that i would definitely recommend watch (but unfortunately have no links to :'( )

otherwise, pretty much any interview with him reveals a lot of the presence behind his works because they are all so vastly different ("shame" compared to "persona" compared to "hour of the wolf" etc.) but he always has a clear-cut view on his own intentions without really making it seem like that's the only interpretation or that there even was any interpretation outside of his films

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