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Perspective Diversity



   I love watching movies and discussing it with my friend. I often asked them, “What do you think of that movie?” my friend A replied, “I admire how the casts act. They were so great. I still couldn’t believe how she could absorb all of the complexity of that character of hers and acted it out. It leaves me speechless.” And then B added “It’s really cool how they made the cinematography. It was so well-thought, well-done and great. It still leaves me wondering how they can take that particular scene from that angle. It must’ve been hard but it paid off, nevertheless. It was brilliant.” Then C also added some spice into the game, to which he said “I’m really curious about their editing. How can they make such great movie? I wonder where do they learn to edit movie to become like that?”

 That event enable me to conclude this one thing : even from watching the same movie, every single one of us is looking at it from a different point of view. One from its acts, one from its cinematography, one from its editing and myself saw a film from its story-plot.

Well, for starter, if all of us were focusing on the story-plot only, the other aspects will go ashtray, right? No one wants to watch a bad movie, no matter how great the story-plot is. The actors and actresses have to be great along with the execution of the whole movie. The cinematography, special effects, editing and everything. All of them have to support one another to make one great movie. That’s why perspective diversity is so important. We need that difference in perspective. Those perspectives complete each other so we’ll able to grasp its big picture.

TEDtalk on “Helpful advice for aspiring writers of all ages” once said that no one else sees the world quite the same way as you do, so share your unique perspective. The main reason of me making this blog is I want to share my perspective with all of you. Some may agree, some may not. And it’s okay. My perspective, my way of seeing things doesn’t have to be your way of seeing things too.

Because none of us is the same, right? 


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