"Partie de Campagne", The French Do It Best.

So, just a quickie before I head off to Film Discussion...

While everyone else was off heading to free-for-all Halloween parties at State and everywhere else at 6:30, I was blissfully abandoned in a half-empty colossal lecture hall left to the mercy of a French-speaking film professor. I sat there, anxious to get out, not wanting to be there for once. I twiddled my thumbs as I watched interesting characters... some unappreciative, some dressed in drag, and the few truly passionate. What came next was a pleasant surprise. A little film called "Partie de Campagne". Fourty minutes of beauty-defying collaborations of sound and picture, silence and chaos. In the end it taught me that "seeing is believing" is nothing but all sorts of false. Much like in classical films and in real life... as ridiculous as it may sound... hearing is believing. I think for the most part this is true. I think people have become reliant on sound, or music to be exact, to communicate all the undefinable things in life. Movies just like music share the same mission; to help us understand. Whether we intended to invent both music and film or just by accident we got lucky and discovered it... I think we need to set aside all things sometimes and not look for an answer for once.

If you ever get the chance, watch this film. It'll change the way you see things.