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How does that mean not interesting?

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Do you find non-charismatic, unattractive people who babble incessantly interesting?
I don't.

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Most of what you're saying is that you didn't find him to be believable, but that says nothing about his character. He's presenting a story of himself, as he does at the end of Claire's Knee to the author. As is clear to me there, he's full of sh*t, and that same agency carries throughout the film. Maybe the author finds Jerome unbelievable as well, but the important thing in Rohmer's Moral Tales is that we're confined to Jerome's viewpoint of himself, and his moral understanding of himself. You making judgments on Brialy as Jerome really says nothing about the film, because the film is presenting an ambiguous view of character. Rohmer the Hawksian leaves the entire film in the present tense (I don't think flashbacks happen in Rohmer, at least not with any frequency). What this does to our understanding of character is then very complex (as it is in Hawks), and shouldn't be confined to a non-ambiguous reading of the things the characters say. Thrusday's Next complained that Rohmer only talks and never shows, but I entirely disagree with that. Rohmer is not about the words, but about the interactions, the space between people. Talking in Rohmer is not exposition! If you can't watch a film without the personal agency to interact with the things characters say, then you can't understand Rohmer.

But to answer your question above, yes I do. I don't see how being unattractive and non-charismatic has anything to do with someone being interesting (and I don't think either of these things about Jerome). It may affect whether I like them or not, but I don't think it has anything to do with them being interesting.

Maybe I "can't" understand Rohmer. Either way the movie and the character were boring.

Thanks for at least reading and responding to one sentence I said, bro

But if you find them off putting can't you see that it might limit (or even preclude) you from finding someone interesting?

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Again, I can see it being a reason not to like someone, but I don't equate that with finding someone uninteresting, like Miss Vicky seems to be

I'm not equating it with anything. I'm saying I find him only vaguely creepy, but not creepy enough to be intriguing. His character does little more than talk and does so without really expressing any kind of emotion. He claims to be a womanizer, but there's nothing attractive about him. He's not good looking. He doesn't exude confidence. He's very flat, for lack of a better word.

He's expressing the fundamentals of ego, and you just used that break to restate what you've said before without responding to what I said which directly addressed these points before. This discussion can't really proceed unless you address that.

"I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kinda like watching paint dry." - Harry Moseby, NIght Moves (1975)

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None of your points have anything to do with me finding the character and film boring and have everything to do with why you find the film interesting.

I relate to movies first and foremost by their characters. If I'm bored by the characters, I'm bored by the movie.

This is in direct response to you saying you found Jerome unconvincing as a womanizer. You've been avoiding responding to it so far.

It's that boring?

Do you think people are interesting?

Different people have different interests and hence are bored by different things. Bluedeed should understand that since he claims to be bored by Spielberg's movies but entertained by Rohmer's.

While I love Only Yesterday, one of my top 10 animated films, you claim to be bored by it and I can understand why, so I cannot say I disagree with you that the film is boring because I can easily see why people can find it boring.

In general? No. I find most people boring but some people are interesting.

I am a bit of an "autistic" person who has difficulty being interested in gossip about people but is easily interested by statistical facts.

Then Rohmer will feel like paint drying. (I suggest rewording that, describing yourself as autistic will possibly draw snide remarks from people here)

Why? People here love me!

If I cared that much about snide remarks I would have left the forum in June 2013.

i got Rohmer's Six Moral Tales from the last Criterion flash sale and i just want to say that i am really looking forward to them.

I'm very fond of 4 of the 6 of them, but (as I've said several times before) generally prefer the Comedies and Proverbs