Am I the only one who hates human drama films that don't

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Am I the only one who hates human drama films that don't have some sort of extraordinary circumstance attached to them? I mean shit like Love, Boyhood, 12 Years a Slave, etc.

I think the human condition is far more interesting when studied in a unrealistic scenario, in something that almost certainly couldn't happen. We all know what greed, love, suffering, loss, pain, etc. are, it's fucking boring to watch people go through that shit on screen when you see this stuff every day. The sick aunt, the unlikely comeback-kid, the guy who flips one day and kills his entire family. We either have these people in our lives, or we witness it through the news.

I think it's why I hate westerns. It's about generic men living shitty lives in a lawless place, coping with the problems it brings. But there's never anything interesting beyond surviving on the frontier.

It's when the surreal, extraordinary, supernatural, or alien enters these stories that they become interesting.

Twin Peaks, for example, is steeped with "normal" people, but is enveloped in all of this weird metaphysical shit. If Twin Peaks was some dumb AMC show about small-town life in a coal town I'd be gouging my eyes out. Oh no, some bitch cheated on her coal miner husband with some other guy, but it turns out her husband was gay! Who the fuck cares? Those people might as well be your neighbors.

Detective get sucked into some sort of electrical nether-dimension and is spit back out retarded while a bunch of murders and other weird shit start happening. Now you've got my interest.

Anywho, that's my livejournal post for today.