Despite my verbose nature, I’m terrible at organizing my thoughts. I can come up with succinct and impactful statements for conveying what I think or feel but writing paragraphs and essays? No. I try, but I fail. That’s why I’ve avoided blogging for a long time, despite being told that I would be great at it. I just don’t have the patience to write walls of text to convey something, I might even end up changing my opinion on the subject. I venerate people who can publish these kind of blogs and write them so eloquently.

So, the question is, what do I do? I don’t know. I’m just verbalizing my thoughts without any idea of what the goal is. So, since I’m such a pessimist, I’ll just talk about what I hate.

I was recently watching a review of the movie Interstellar, where the reviewer harshly criticized it. Not surprisingly, the top comment claimed that the reviewer just did not understand the movie. Here we have an archetype. The pretentious bastard who thinks that anyone who doesn’t agree with him is stupid. Now, granted the reviewer did misunderstand some of the plot elements (like the scene where a character expressed skepticism over the NASA moon landing which was supposed to show the decreasing value of scientists, while the reviewer literally interpreted it as a denial of the event), I thought some of his criticisms were legitimate. The primary one being the concept of ‘Nolanism’. Nolanism dictates that every dialogue in the movie has to be significant and expository, it has to mean something. Now, on the surface, you might not find anything wrong with that. I didn’t either. But the negative aspect of it hits you after a while. Characters are essentially reduced to perspectives. When the protagonist talks about the meaning of life, you don’t see a human being, you see a perspective. An opinion. The reviewer cited Pulp Fiction as a contrast, where the protagonists mostly talked about insignificant minutiae but they felt real. They seemed like actual human beings, people you can meet in real life. What are the chances of you being introduced to a person who, when asked what his name is, starts pondering the significance of having a name. But I digress. I’m not here to defend the reviewer. I’m here to talk about the pretentious bastard.

“If you don’t agree with me, you’re wrong.”

Actually, I don’t even know what to discuss here. All I can say is that I despise people who think their opinions are facts and that any differing opinion is the product of the mind of an idiot. Condemn them.

I vehemently despise pseudo-intellectuals, basically. Really, they are the kind of people who annoy me the most in this world and trust me, there are countless things that annoy me. I wanted to virtually punch a particular guy who talked about how the reviewer didn’t enjoy Interstellar because he “wasn’t a thinking man and masturbated to Michael Bay films”. I actually liked Interstellar but I can understand why it didn’t appeal to some people. I honestly enjoyed The Guardians of the Galaxy more. Yes, I said it. It kept me enraptured and enthralled. Most importantly, it was highly entertaining. Ultimately, I watch movies to be entertained. The internet is so vast that you have millions of other resources that can educate you.

If all of us had the same opinion, we would be robots. I wouldn’t even mind hanging out with someone who liked Justin Bieber, because he would have an opinion and he wouldn’t pretend to be smart. Of course, if he thinks Justin Bieber is great even after watching a video of him urinating in a bucket or spitting at his fans from the balcony, I would question his taste.

Although I mentioned it with the intent of ridicule, I do find it interesting to ponder the significance of having a name. Why do we have a name? Is it because we are searching for our consciousness in the depths of the…?

*record scratch*

Who am I kidding, it’s because we need a way to identify people and it just so happens that it’s easier to remember a combination of letters than numbers.

Well, that’s all for now. Hopefully, I will seem more professional in my next post.