Haiku film review: Less IS less

A new game played by three friends on the road north…

Basho: A Man for All Seasons...

Lilacs on the river,

Thomas blocks Henry’s divorce,

Prison to gallows.

Sora: The Mission...

Waterfalls and jungle,

Settlers enslave Indians,

Cultural fallout.

Disciple: Avatar...

Spaceships raid forest,

Blue natives ride giant birds,

Burnt trees but victory.

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Voice-over

If there were to be rules for writing film reviews in haiku, we could expect: (1) setting the scene, (2) reporting the event, (3) describing the outcome. Or in haiku form…

Film reveals location,

A conflict is followed by

A resolution.

In traditional haiku the location is a peaceful scene, the event is physical action, change occurs.

An old pond.

A frog jumps.

Sound of water.

Sites that do…

Movie reviews…

Through haiku…

http://reviewinhaiku.com/

http://www.haikumoviereviews.com/

An experiment

But in some cases, less IS less.

More might be better.

On FaceBook everyone knows you're a cat

Sketch of a General Cat    

Jerry: You Photoshopped your photo into a sketch?
Tom: What do you think?
Jerry: You’ve gone from being You The Cat to being merely a Generic Cat.
Tom: I needed a new avatar. I stuck with being a cat because, in the end, on FaceBook, everyone knows you are a cat.
Jerry: You got that from somewhere.
Tom: Maybe. Who cares? Everything these days is a derivative. A mixture. A mashup. OK, so the structure came from somewhere but the words are mine.

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Voice-over     
The deep structure generates a variety of sentences:

Location + Entity + Verb + Personal reference + Copula + Entity

On the internet + nobody + knows + you + are + a dog

On FaceBook + everyone + knows + you + are + a cat

Look forward to more quotations like this sheep in wolf’s clothing!

Chomsky might agree the surface structure is creative. A little.

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