Genres

So this weeks assignment got me thinking about Genre and how it isn't so classified as we all might think or actually maybe we did know this.  I was thinking about many movies and searching on imdb.com and not one film had just one genre.  They were all classified in many different genres like comdedy, drama, fantasy etc.  

I was watching the film notting hill last night so I decided I would guess what genre it would fall into then look on imdb.com and see if i was right.  I guessed it fell under the romance genre and found that it is also classified as comedy.  So then i spent some time looking up different movies just to see the genres.  I looked up Spiderman (action, crime, sci-fi, thriller) I basically went through my dvd list,  Atonement (drama, mystery, romance, war) Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (drama, romance) stand by me (adventure drama)...just to name a few!

I thought it was interesting that everyone has trouble classifying a film into one genre...it is an impossible task!