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There’s a lot of movies I haven’t completed at this point, and it’s kind of cool — Amadeus (1984), Knocked Up (2007), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). I don’t need to know the ending. I got enough. I like how they stay alive in my mind.
Even 10 minutes would be enough. https://t.co/C29gksZvIc
The movie doesn’t evolve or go somewhere. It creates a world with its very first felt sense, and it’s the only world it creates. It’s that world, that evolves in time, held statically in place. There is no moving of the world. The world itself changes.
The plot of the movie kind of slides through the world created by the movie, and that’s why an unfinished movie doesn’t feel incomplete. It’s still a whole world. https://t.co/0cizaNTZwE
If I choose to continue the movies, it will be like choosing to watch them again. I approach it as something fresh, because nothing was left undone. Everything was left acceptably unfinished, unfinished like it always is. https://t.co/aAYyrLNpnR
Even if I had finished watching the movie, would I have finished thinking about it? Would I have finished writing about it, connecting my thoughts about it, living it? I wouldn’t have. “Finishing” the movie was just an illusion. A legible checkpoint of sorts.
But what my enlightenment lets me do in this case is smoothen the fabric of reality. There are no “nudge points” to align reality to. It’s smoother now. https://t.co/Bwua1OIT1o
