Miranda July's "The Amateurist" is similar to a vast number of other experimental films in that the majority of them make me question if I missed a critical statement before the screening, explaining some esoteric idealism or style...
She claims to have a background in numbers. This would elude that she was, at some point, a mathematician. Yet she sheds no more knowledge than her ability to recognize the shape of a numeric character. It's likely true (diegetically) that her past experience with numbers would leak through at some fundamental level to whatever activity she was presently involved in - it's human nature to understand something by relating it to something we already understand. But the way she mentioned the numbers seemed out-of-place and unnecessary.
It seems to be a critique on how, in mainstream media, a professional voice (such as this) can take away from the power of the work. It becomes unnecessarily complicated, filled with occupational lexicon and terminology esoteric to the (average) viewer.
I may be totally wrong about this (if you get past the poor explanation), but interpretation is interpretation!
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You're right that interpretation is subjective. We do not ask for "correct" interpretations in this class, only well-thought out and suppported ones.
This blog is thoughtful but perhaps a bit short.
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