Do All Stories Need To Be The Same?

I don’t think so. Sometimes I find myself looking at stories and saying, “Oh, I’ve seen that before. It’s the story of one man and his life is normal until… and then he saves the day…”. You remember the Greek tragedies? I guess in those stories he doesn’t save the day.

Yeah, the above is true in so far as it goes (It’s always dangerous being too reductionist). I like the little details though. Like my mind goes back to Spirited Away where Chihiro is putting on her shoes and she taps her shoes against the step to push the front of her toes into the front of the shoes. Details like that make stories beautiful.

Or… I don’t see this happen MUCH in movies, but when it does I’m always blown away. Sometimes stuff just happens in movies because it just happens.

That’s right. There’s no callback, no link, no “God was pulling the strings”, stuff just happens. Just like in real life. I wish we’d see more stories where stuff would happen just because.