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Hmm. So, I have Children of Men on loan from Netflix this week. I watched (and enjoyed) most of it the other night. But I sortof... wandered away and didn't watch the end. It was playing for a while in the background after I had wandered away... so I have a pretty good idea of what was happening through most of the end of the flick. I haven't seen (or heard) the very end, so maybe there's a magnificent plot twist (don't tell me, I may watch it yet tonight) that I'm just not aware of. But that brings me to an interesting observation.

When the movie's action 'intensified', I got bored, and was no longer engaged enough to be glued to the screen, or pausing the film when I got up to get more cider so that I didn't miss anything. I got up to just glance at my email and ended up more engaged in doing nothing on the computer. It ceased being important. They lost my interest. I stopped caring. The struggle against the war setting was going on, there was lots of shouting and gunfire. Action for the sake of action bores me very quickly, and has no tension whatsoever to keep me engaged. I'm not totally sure where I fell off the attention-train on this one, or what caused me to, but I'm thinking about it, because I want to know what not to do in my writing.

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