[Doc Faustus]

I don't believe in acting like people suck because they don't get something. I feel like I should help them understand what there is to gain from it. A lot of people miss out on Ulysses because they look at it from the wrong plane, thinking it's self indulgent because Joyce's references are products of his time and education and because it's a book that's more about what happens to the book than to the people in it, which makes it different from the Sound and the Fury's stream of consciousness which is about intimacy. It's genuinely hard to grasp because we're trained to read a certain way and plot works a certain way. But, it's a book that's more a product of the realm of ideas and spirituality than our own. Nothing happens. And the nothing that's happening is told in a way that's confusing and protean. But it changes because life and the world around us go on and do bigger things even when we feel like we're doing nothing and even something as simple as going to a funeral or looking at newborn babies makes us a part of something huge and relevant. When he looks at babies, you see language growing up, when he gets confused, the book gets more confusing. I can see why you don't like most H.G Lewis movies too but you should see The Gore Gore Girls if you haven't and if you can dig it, you'll see more of what he's doing and why people can identify. As for Gialli, a lot of them are very slow, not coherent and don't pay off with action. You might want to try Opera or Bava's enjoyable, fun and human La Ragazza Che Sapeva Troppo.