But I would like to meet the real Minio and not this arrogant artsy being who you are never too sure of…
I'm pretty boring IRL. Overly serious, responsible, stiff. I always take things seriously, too. At least the things I perceive as important. Art is one of them. But there are many other things than just art. I don't like to be stiff on the Internet. I'd rather be frolicking. It's also a matter of language. I'm a different person when I speak English.
Is it a joke. Is it not. Who knows. Is he stupid. Is he not. We will never know…
Woah, there. I'm not stupid. I just watched a slapstick comedy based on anime with people comically beating each other up, fart jokes, and a guy getting his arms and legs stretched to like 20 feet. Obviously, this is the kind of cinema that's harder to get than Tarkovsky. Any serious egghead cinephile would easily scorn it. But I love it. I think this clearly shows I'm not stupid. It takes an incredible amount of intelligence to appreciate this kind of cinema. Any half-wit can look up RYM's elitist canon, half-watch La Region Centrale or Antigona, and copy Antigona's ratings 1:1 to pretend to be a serious, SERIOUS cinephile of utmost film knowledge. No, seriously, people are doing that. But then, they have NOTHING to say about these movies. Now, I may have nothing to say about Straubs (except for the parachuters maxim), but at least I'm sincere. Look, love, purity, and sincerity are the most important things in life. Never forget about it!
but isn’t that also kind of sad for yourself to have to be a persona and in that way also alienate people who might actually like you and what you have to say?
Wait, so people don't actually like me or what I'm saying? I guess it's their loss. Most valuable people I ever met were challenging to know in one way or another. I always had to somehow adjust my mind to *get* them. Overlook some of their downsides. If you don't have any visible downsides, you have to come up with them. Or maybe just take them out from the darkest corners of your psyche. So is Mr Minio a joke or not? Is Mr Minio rude or not? Is Mr Minio really like that? Who is Mr Minio? It's better nobody's sure. Is Mr Minio an enigma? YES. And I enjoy people being bewildered and confused and asking themselves these questions. But I think it's best when they deduce that Mr Minio is just a person like them. And he's perfectible just like them.
Because I can’t take “Mr Minio” serious in the long run. Whoever he is. At a glance I feel like he has some valid points, but looking closer it just ends in elevated one-liners and single-minded paragraphs with a slight edge.
I don't know, bro. I think it's very clear when I'm 100% sincere. The rest might be confusing, and people might not know. But when I'm really sincere, I am really sincere, and anybody who read more than 100 of my posts can tell.
And all that effort you seem to put into your long replies and writings just gets lost on me. And many others I’m sure. So I hope you get something out of it.
Again, depends on which replies you're talking about. If EVERYTHING I ever wrote is lost on you, then you're clearly not paying attention. But I sometimes write in riddles that may require lots of cinematic knowledge, for example.
Do you know that game from
Last Year at Marienbad? That game is so ingenious that you NEVER lose when you play it. I never lose either. Do you know these enigmatic Rivette movies where a character spends hours trying to solve a mystery and ends up with nothing? Who do these characters remind you of? Me or you?
Because everything, as you have referenced, it’s served with this slight arrogance or superiority and often with a starting point in something that others may love (a music genre, a specific movie or whatever).
Yes, I'm pretty arrogant. I think arrogance goes hand-in-hand with the lack of knowledge. Do you think I may be masking my lack of knowledge using my arrogance? Or is it more likely that I'm unwilling to share the knowledge and therefore I use arrogance to mask it? Look, life is finite. If I don't share my knowledge, my thoughts, and loves, I'll die without anybody knowing about them. So do you think I should, after all, share my knowledge? Here? Somewhere else?
So people are gonna be annoyed or provoked. And if that’s your goal you are very successful. But you lose a lot of people who might actually like the real you.
I think it's rather me choosing people than other people choosing me. But it's a fair point regardless. I bet you haven't seen It's a Flickering Life, so I'm going to reference it. You know what's life about? Life's about choosing what we will regret later. No matter what your choice is, you will regret the other thing you didn't choose. It's not always true. But it's true most of the time. So, it makes sense to choose the better option, right? But sometimes you don't know which option is better. So, you kind of have to guess, risking that you're also choosing the greater regret. But no matter what your choice is, you have to live your life PROUDLY with that choice. And you can't save everyone, you can't help everyone, you can't give yourself fully to everyone. Think about it.