his is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have identified that connect to your essential question. How do these ideas resonate with or challenge your own beliefs, experiences, or practices? Be sure to give concrete and specific examples. You may want to address: ways the sources answered parts of your Essential Question, what additional questions were raised, or how your essential understanding of your project was altered or confirmed by the readings you did.

My first source is Susan Sontags Against Interpretation. I have been listening to the audio version of this collection of essays during breaks from researching specific movies. This book has helped me understand the different ways in which I can critique when watching films. However, this book has made critiquing things more complicated than clear. When watching movies now, I pay more attention to when I feel like I am more worried about interpreting what the movie means than actually enjoying the film. There is a difference between watching a movie and picking up on meaning, then watching a movie, and forcefully extracting meaning for the sake of a unique take. 

My second source is a website called Black Girl Nerds. I first found this website after watching “The Big Lebowski”. An article on this website written by Sezín Koehler gave a good analysis of how a movie like that is made by white men for white men and explains that although they do enjoy the film, it is a necessary act of care to point out the ways that it has aged poorly. One problem that I have found is that when I watch certain movies that do not necessarily withstand the test of time and could be described as problematic, it is better to watch them with that in mind than to completely ignore the movie. Because it is easier for me to only talk about things that I would watch on my own time, but that would not answer my essential question.