Statement

First off, whoa, sorry this is so late, I hope its not too late...anyway. This is the statement for my final movie.

Essentially, I started thinking about numbers and their relevance in my day-to-day life when I saw the movie Stranger Than Fiction, with Will Ferrell. Usually I'm very very anti-Ferrell, his movies just don't interest me. I liked Stranger than Fiction though, I thought it had some interesting depth to it. But in the voice overs of certain parts of the movie, a narrator details that Ferrell (playing the main character) counts brush strokes while he brushes his teeth, how many minutes it takes to tie his tie, etc etc.

I do so many things over and over a day, and some of its very mundane, in fact most of it is, but I really only feel like a person or a thing that is composed of mundane detail. Like, I feel that, on a base level, all I really am is how many times i've brushed my teeth, gotten up, skipped breakfast, etc etc, and the rest is all in the past. Then of course, some of the things i mentioned in my movie where more personal; how many heart pills I've taken, how many years I've been riding the T, things like that. But by sorted them into simply 'a number of times', I feel like I'm putting them on the same level with the mundane details, which is a metaphor for who I am: a collection of events both personal and boringly common that compose my character.