You know, I'm not sure what this means, but it was a kind of cool quiz. (I gacked it from Coup de Vent, who's beautifully redesigned her site, London and the North.) I'm surprised I didn't come out a Romanticist. Guess I left my rose-colored glasses off today. Or my teeth hurt too much after the vicious cleaning I got this afternoon, which was my fault entirely. Dr. Em will be amused, no doubt, to see my third highest score was post-modernist. I blame this on too many movies in a row.
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You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
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Kinsey, BTW, was quite good, yet almost painful to watch. Too foreshortened as a biopic, too soft-focus to be a documentary, and shocking, well, only in that people used to believe the most incredibly absurd things about sex. And still do, no doubt, despite the fact that you can watch pretty graphic sex scenes in R-rated Hollywood movies. It's definitely a sea change, but not necessarily all that much more usefully informative. Springing to mind in the midst of it was one of the entries from Virginia Woolf's early diaries, not long after her father has died and she's sharing a house with her older sister, Vanessa, older brother Toby, and some of Toby's Oxbridge pals. They're sitting in the parlor one day and Lytton Strachey wanders by, points to a stain on Vanessa's dress and says, casually, "Semen?" Virginia marks that as a moment when they all seemed to shed the stifling Victorianism that had enveloped them in their father's house.
Every generation thinks they've invented sex. How sad.
The movie's also an interesting portrayal of a clash between ethics in science (which sometimes demands disinterested, nonjudgmental observation) and social morality and to what extent they need to inform each other, and about what you can and can't measure.
The real mystery of the movie is why everyone had such bad hair. Liam's got an awful haircut and Laura Linney looks like she's wearing a fright wig of varying lengths throughout. The 50's and 60's weren't that dorky. No period in history was that dorky, except possibly Regency England and Napoleonic France.
I scored 56% existentialist and 50% cultural creative. :) The next closest was post-modernist. Never would have guessed that... See, that's why we're friends!
Posted by: Jen-Luc | May 27, 2005 at 09:44 AM