Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20161212225017

Batman V Superman comes to mind, also Lost, anything outside of the Sixth Sense that Shyamalan has ever touched. The problem with those sort of stories though isn't that they are too complex, actually they try to be too complex and yet turn out childishly simple. The Matrix is a very dumb movie that tries to sound smart and ends up only muttering gibberish, which is not to say it isn't a good movie, it is but smart, it-is-not. Think of the creators of such works and 8 year-old children who know they want to blow people's minds but being 8 year olds they can only blow other 8 year old's minds.

A common trap creatives can fall into is to try to make something smarter than themselves. To blow their own minds, but since stories also need a sense of structure, they end of disjointed and often ignoring obvious plot-holes because of how "Outside-the-Box" they are trying to be. And at a certain point the creators realize they are in over there heads and try to get out of it by just pulling ludicrous ideas out of their butts to the point where even they don't know what the point is, but it sounds deep and creative so if anyone calls them on it they can say they just don't get them. Intellect without Wisdom to structure it is nativity.

Which is not to say it isn't an easy trap to fall into. When writing my articles I very often need to slash whole sections or completely restructure them to be more palatable. But get some sleep let it sit for a day come back to it, reread it with a fresh outlook and you'll very often see your own flaws. Never be afraid to edit or even cut your work for the sake of being concise.