Monday, July 13, 2009
My problem with most movies and television shows is that they don’t require me to suspend my disbelief enough. I am willing to go along for the ride if there are vampires or werewolves or ghosts involved, but not immigration officers who fly from Manhattan to Alaska to force a couple to admit their potential marriage is a sham. (I just saw The Proposal.) I realize this shows a basic misunderstanding of comedy on my part: there’s no entertainment if people just act the way they usually do; the joke is that this immigration officer is crazy. But for some reason, I find the idea of an immigration officer ACTUALLY ATTENDING THE WEDDING more unrealistically distracting than, say, aliens that are giant robots or maybe cars and also happen to speak English.