JDB

Just to be clear, my failure to watch all of Julien Donkey-Boy should not be taken as a condemnation of the film. In fact, maybe it should be read as the opposite?

I don't watch many horror movies because my mind likes to play tricks on me afterwards. This also applies to emotionally or mentally draining films, which is what I'd classify JDB after watching about 45 minutes of it. Maybe I was just in a bad place at the time and perhaps I'd understand the edification that John sees in it were I able to push through. But I didn't. That doesn't mean I never will.

You may eventually notice that I will never see certain films in the theater or with other people. I invest too much and sometimes I need to break during a film or have a long post-viewing refractory period. This is why I watched Melancholia and Take Shelter alone at home. This is why I ignored John's tweet about Sound of My Voice. Of course, many of these movies end at the top of my lists every year.

As for Korine, I saw Kids and Gummo during high school with some friends. But we watched them more for their strangeness than anything else. I don't really think that I understood anything about them at the time. I guess I'm still not sure I do. I thought that I had seen JDB too, but realized when I started it that I had not.

i.e. I'm a baby