All forms of expression are to be critiqued and never taken at face value. As modes of expression they belong to the person who has made them who will, ultimately, express themselves.

There are three main types of expression;

1. Art
2. Music
3. Film

Art can only be critiqued in regards to ones own observations. Images can only be interpreted, based off, of ones own personal values as given to the object being depicted. A painting of a multicoloured blob suspended in space may not mean so much to one person as it would to another. In this regard Art cannot be critiqued efficiantly. Art student usually suffer from this one as a teachers personal tastes dictate a grade of some sort when in reality a persons expression in this form cannot be judged by another.

Music can be critiqued, it is much the same as art, as all forms of expression fall under the term but it is made to appeal and rhythm has to appeal, to make sence. An artist smashing steel cans and breaking glass plates and windows can't preform at a concert and say exclaim that thats how they felt at the time while in the stuido, unlike a painter. This reason is usually given for the majority of musical art forms but for the most part music has to make some kind of sence. There has to be logic involved whereas in art there need not be.

Films of course can be critiqued almost compltely. They are made for veiwing, for others, and so have to make sence. The only excuse for them not making sence is that a person may not be able to fully relate to the story being depicted but it still has to be followed in some way or another which means there has to be a plot.

Being a film critique involves understanding the ways in which a film is made, there are a lot of things which a film has to depict in a certain way to grab the attention of the veiwer things that in reality would be obvious or simply understood in some way or another.

E.G; A person noticing that a woman has three children who look a bit diffrent from one another will, for the most, part assume they have diffrent fathers and not need to enquire so much about the matter. The same senario in a film could mean that the director couldn't (as is what tends to happen) find three young actors who look at all like the female character and so the fact that they have diffrent fathers would need to be highlighted in some way or another... so within a film there are often times of self explination to let the audience in on what is going on or has gone on in said characters life. This is also a fundamental diffrence between a book which allows for ones imagination to run wild and a film, no such explinations (and over time) is needed to fill in blanks.

There also needs to be a way to engage the audience, which lends to predictability, its normally the soilder happy to explain that after this battle he has plans to retire to his home where a white picket fence, a golden retriever and two children are eagerly waiting for him alongside his (always good looking to further engage) wife who dies in some horrible circumstance, normally a prolonged death depending on the depth (story time, sympathy) given to the character. The same goes for the loveable character, the slightly quirky fish the audience is given as bait only to be reeled back from in some way later on in the story.

Characters, mostly in programs but the same goes for films are also balanced off of one another. The good cop bad cop senario is a well known one, others would include the idiotic character balanced by the slightly lesser idiotic charcter. Or the group character ploys as seen in the program Friends.

The idea of being a critique isn't to be snobbish, thats something that is gained after deciding to become one. The idea is to understand what is being brought across by the director (not actors) and how. Salted popcorn and sour rowntrees are a favorite of critics as the cheap, slightly sour taste automatically draws the corners of the mouth downward giving the dissaproved look no matter how the director attempts to sway, tug and pull at ones emotions.

Damn it, I've got hayfeaver bad... may or may not be continued.