For my extra credit blog I chose to re watch a documentary that I actually mentioned in class!
The film is called "mortified" and it's about everyone!
Anyone and everyone who is brave enough to publicly read their diary that is.
In class we've read many memoirs and we've often questioned how real they are. They've been written about adolescence, adulthood, and childhood. But they've all been written during adulthood.
So how filtered are they? How embellished?
But what is more raw than a journal entry written in the heat of the moment from your freshman year of high school?
Granted, our views of things most likely aren't always clear, even in the moment...but at least in these instances we know what they truthfully and genuinely thought at that exact moment in their lives.
And I love the whole essence of this choice that these people have made. To get up and verbally read their lives.
It's easy for us to hide between the covers of a book labeled "memoir" and have people wonder about how we went through life...and even more so how we feel about it now after it's all done...
But to get up and read it in PERSON?! THAT is true bravery. And we get to see it all over their face--how they feel about it.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE literature in almost any form--but I believe real life it to be shared in person. That is how humans truly interact and connect.
The film is called "mortified" and it's about everyone!
Anyone and everyone who is brave enough to publicly read their diary that is.
In class we've read many memoirs and we've often questioned how real they are. They've been written about adolescence, adulthood, and childhood. But they've all been written during adulthood.
So how filtered are they? How embellished?
But what is more raw than a journal entry written in the heat of the moment from your freshman year of high school?
Granted, our views of things most likely aren't always clear, even in the moment...but at least in these instances we know what they truthfully and genuinely thought at that exact moment in their lives.
And I love the whole essence of this choice that these people have made. To get up and verbally read their lives.
It's easy for us to hide between the covers of a book labeled "memoir" and have people wonder about how we went through life...and even more so how we feel about it now after it's all done...
But to get up and read it in PERSON?! THAT is true bravery. And we get to see it all over their face--how they feel about it.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE literature in almost any form--but I believe real life it to be shared in person. That is how humans truly interact and connect.
Thanks for sharing this title again--I'll have to check it out!
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