This Might Be More Than 500 Words

There are times during class that I get very excited. I become very interested in what we are learning and cannot wait to take what it is that I have just learned, and make new discoveries with it. Today I was fascinated when I learned the term "Dogme 95." Just the name excited me. I was like, "Dogme 95, what's that???" I remembered seeing a movie called Dogma and I wondered if it had anything to do with that. Did it have anything to do with the year 1995? I didn't know! But I didn't have to wait a long time to hear Andrew Rudd's definition. After all, these thoughts were flashing through my mind in seconds' time because I first heard this term within the same moment and same sentence that he explained it.
I listened intently as he told us of this wonder. It was a movement, it had rules - very strange rules. And the more I heard, the more intrigued I became. How could it be possible to create a any kind of film under these standards? Or rather, how could it be possible to create any kind of film that a human being might actually watch and enjoy, under these standards? Well, according to my professor it was possible. And I wanted to know how. I listened eagerly for examples. "Tell," I begged in my mind,"Please tell me Andrew Rudd, where can I find these Dogme 95 films? What are they???"
But to my dismay we continued on to the next subject without the slightest mention of an example. What, had I missed it? I raised my hand to ask for examples, but he didn't see. After a while, I put it down. After all, we were on a whole new topic now. And it was just as interesting. Besides, hadn't he mentioned something about a link on his blog? Surely I would find my answer there.
So off I went to Rudd's Media World. This would be a world of answers. I took off to this world in hopes of finding a way to watch a Dogme 95 film. I wanted to see for myself what sort of phenomena this was. And this is what I found:
Check out this Wikipedia entry on Dogme 95 -- and if you're really brave watch one of the films (beware they're not exactly "malopriate").

What are your impressions about this movement.

Excellent. Here we go...but wait. Check out what entry? Where was the entry he spoke of? There was no link. Was I missing it? And how could I watch one of the movies? Were they available online? Could I go to Blockbuster and rent one? Where were they???
Wikipediatime.
So off I went to the world of online encyclopedia. And there I found an entry concerning Dogme 95. But I didn't really read much more than what I had already learned in class. This, in fact, inticed my curiosity even further. So I was ecstatic to see a list of Dogme 95 films at the bottom of the page. But I found no way to watch any of these movies. Only descriptions to make me even more curious. And I saw a trailer, but it was not in English.
Oh sad day.
Feeling unfufilled and defeated, I headed back to Rudd's Media World once more in search of some sort of over-looked explination. But I found none.
Instead, I decided to go back to my own blog. A new entry was due, and I decided that I would discuss one of my favourite films ever. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What better film to relate to everything we'd been discussing in class. But when it came time to start typing up my blog, I didn't feel like it. So I instead described to you today's long an fruitless quest that was not my journey to the world of Dogme 95. Thank you.

THE END

~Nadia C. Terrell

PS I have no word count on my crappy word processing program here at home. I'm thinking this post might have exceeded five hundred words. I do not appologize. Thank you. = )