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I Actually Felt Diminished By Watching [donald Trump's]. If This Is What Discourse Has Become In America, Who Even Wants To Know About It? It's Just Too Demoralizing And Unsettling.

Photographs Attract False Beliefs The Way Flypaper Attracts Flies.

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

But There's A Big Difference Between, Say, Reporting On A Story And Simply Making Up A Story.

I Believe That We Face Incredible Obstacles In Our Attempts To See The World. Everything In Our Nature Tries To Deny The World Around Us; To Refabricate It In Our Own Image; To Reinvent It For Our Own Benefit. And So, It Becomes Something Of A Challenge, A Task, To Recover (or At Least Attempt To Recover) The Real World Despite All The Impediments To That End.