“Writers are awful to people who ask us where we get our ideas from,†said Neil Gaiman. “We get mean, in a writer-y way, which means we make fun of you for asking.†Creativity will always inspire curiosity, especially among those of us who lack it. We want it to be laid bare, explained, deconstructed. We who lack a true sense of imagination sometimes feel as though there’s a manual out there, possessed by all the geniuses who manage to spin beauty out of nothingness, the contents of which provide instructions on how to create art. Perhaps this curiosity is precisely why there’s an inexhaustible interest in artists explaining their method to us, like in this week’s movie recommendation, 20,000 Days on Earth. Continue reading “Weekend Film Recommendation: 20,000 Days on Earth”