No films or TV. I see TV once in a blue moon, and then I don't pay attention to it. But there are films – not many – that do affect me emotionally, though not to tears. The closing minutes of Prospero's Books, for example, are so ecstatic that I can hardly bear to breathe when I watch them.
Music definitely does affect me, more than I could list here. But I have to be in the appropriate mood, or it doesn't work. There's some Nyman, for example, that if I'm in the right mood will reduce me to a wet blob; other times, I can understand why the music should be affecting, but I perceive it only intellectually.
And I don't think it's a matter of being soppy. A lot of art is deliberately contrived to work on the emotions. The fact that it moves you is a tribute to the skill of the maker, not a reflection on you.
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Music definitely does affect me, more than I could list here. But I have to be in the appropriate mood, or it doesn't work. There's some Nyman, for example, that if I'm in the right mood will reduce me to a wet blob; other times, I can understand why the music should be affecting, but I perceive it only intellectually.
And I don't think it's a matter of being soppy. A lot of art is deliberately contrived to work on the emotions. The fact that it moves you is a tribute to the skill of the maker, not a reflection on you.