What CineMention is for
A film diary that argues back. The catalogue, the Persona engine, the clubs, the games and this blog — what each of them is actually for.
Most film apps are ledgers. You watch something, you tick it off, and a number goes up. CineMention keeps that ledger — it would be useless without one — but the ledger is not the point. The point is what it knows about you, and what it can hand back.
The catalogue, and your record of it
Films is the front door. Every film has a page with its cast, its crew and the part that belongs to this app: who watched it, who liked it, who wrote about it, and which lists it turns up in.
Marking a film is one press from anywhere it appears. Behind that press are four facts the app keeps apart on purpose:
- watched, which is history
- liked, which is taste
- watchlisted, which is intent
- rated, which is judgement, and is not the same as liking something
A diary entry adds the fifth: when you watched it, and whether it was a rewatch. That is the column everything else is eventually computed from.
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Persona: the part that argues back
Persona reads that record and answers three different questions with it.
Analysis is the mirror: totals, rhythm, the shape of your ratings, the genres and decades you actually live in rather than the ones you claim.
