{"id":2422,"date":"2020-01-01T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2020-12-31T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:46:52","slug":"that-ending-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2020\/01\/01\/that-ending-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"That ending explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to say one thing and know for certain that you will instantly realise that it’s really about something else entirely. Except this isn’t because I’m an amazingly talented writer, that I can so brilliantly convey truly fine subtlety, or even that you and I have this connection that we do. Rather, it’s a mistake.<\/p>\n

It’s a case of one thing being on my mind when really my mind has been on another thing.<\/p>\n

Follow. For months I’ve been grumbling around every six to twelve days as YouTube recommends some video or other with a title like “That Cinderella Ending Explained”. It feels as if you could name any film and someone has made a video explaining the ending.<\/p>\n

This initially narked me because the film endings being explained were trivial. “Contact” doesn’t need explaining. “Arrival” invites thought, but it doesn’t need a teenager starting an explanation with the words “Wassup, guys”.<\/p>\n

There are films I’ve left thinking about, but I rather like that. There are films I’ve not understood, such as most Bond movies, but that’s not because the plot has left be befuddled. I did struggle to understand why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a remake instead of a sequel and in that precise example I also did wonder a lot about why the loos were so far from the auditorium.<\/p>\n

I think the thing I’m realising is that I’m okay with not understanding the ending of something.<\/p>\n

I get it or I don’t, I might be intrigued into pondering it, I’m never going to watch a video.<\/p>\n

As I write this, we’re about 30 minutes from the end of the UK being in the EU and it is a fucking calamity. But I need to take a telling from myself and even though I don’t get it, I shouldn’t ponder it or watch a video. No “That Brexit Ending Explained” is going to make me understand a country shooting itself in the face.<\/p>\n

Told you I’m not a subtle writer.<\/p>\n

Take care, eh? I hope to see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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