There’s nothing quite like a list to make you feel warm and secure. Organising the complexities of the world into neat little paper-bound columns is one of life’s small, unsung pleasures. When we herd the untidy pieces of our lives into precise, itemised bullet points we create order from the soupy chaos, which is enough to warm the heart of anyone with even the slightest penchant for control-freakery.
Or perhaps it’s simply that making sense of the world is an inevitably satisfying thing given (if you’ll excuse the borrowed term) the unbearable lightness of being.
Whatever the case, and even if you are one of those folk who consider that making a list is akin to doing the things included therein, they sure do make for good reading.
And good marketing.
Quentin Tarantino knows this only too well. Which explains the release of a video, currently doing the rounds on the net, in which he details his own list - a very personal laundry list of his top 20 movies of the last 17 years. Why 17 years? That’s how long it’s been since he stepped out from behind the counter at the video store and started directing films himself .
It’s an eclectic list, by anyone’s standards with a film buff’s blend of gems like Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation, audience favourites such as Fight Club and The Matrix (yes, The Matrix) and stoner flicks like Dazed and Confused. What would your list contain?
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