The Last Screening

Although Bill Viola's movies were a little tedious, I really liked his ideas, or what I thought were his ideas anyway. In "Migration" I liked how he focused on a single area of space, and how every time it zoomed in, some part of the image became a little clearer. However, the gap between the water dropping and the gong sound really bothered me, I felt like it was out of sync, thoguh maybe that was his point. With "The Reflection Pool" the whole idea of water reflecting reality, but in a distorted manner was rather interesting, the way things are not quite as they appear in their reflection.

I also really enjoyed "I Want to See How You See." I think that maybe it was not entirely clear and very strange, but still very intriuging. I mean, sure it maybe took the idea of perception to an extreme, but this only emphasized how really, you don't know how differently someone could be seeing something from the way you do, which is an important concept to grasp in life. Looking past its eccentricity, it really was a good film.