A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

As I was reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", the quality about David Wallace that stood out the most was his colloquial style of writing. At the same time, he is able to maintain his sense of focus and professionalism, which made reading his article educational, yet enjoyable at the same time. The footnotes offered additional information without becoming too long winded. Something unique about Wallace was his ability to sprinkle a bit of his own personality within the footnotes, instead of maintaining a strictly monotone business style that is often so characteristic of most of them. The saying that states one could not mix business with pleasure is not entirely accurate. Wallace was able to do so while still successfully getting his point across. For him, this was his pleasure.

One could tell how much Wallace admired director David Lynch. Although like most critics, Wallace could still identify some faults in Blue Velvet, one could tell that he really understood the film as a work of art. There were many details and angles to the plot that were mentioned that I had not observed before, which made me realize that I still had a lot to learn about film critiquing. But still, I could not bring myself to close read Blue Velvet enough to enter as much analysis as Wallace had, because there were some scenes that proved to be too much for me to read too deeply into them.