Cats are loved by thinkers, philosophers, dreamers, writers and revolutionaries simply because of the fact that they cannot be tamed and will not do as they are told. They remind our souls of our innate freedom.
Dogs are loyal and see only the best in people. Because of this they can be controlled. When they are not in the employ of a useful function, which sees them transcend from mere animals, they are easily abused and can become the weapon of fascists and fearful fundamentalists.
Saturday, 9 August 2014
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Tell the Truth
Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytical thought. All stories faithfully mirror their maker, exposing their humanity or lack of it.
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure. The greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.
Pressure is essential - choices made when nothing is at stake mean little.
Choice under pressure strips away the mask of characterisation and gives insight into true character. The revelation of true character in contrast or contradiction to characterisation is fundamental to all fine storytelling.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Film, therefore, is temporal art.
The source of all art is the human psyche’s primal, prelinguistic need for the resolution of stress and discord through beauty and harmony, for the use of creativity to revive a life deadened by routine, for a link to reality through our instructive sensory feel for the truth.
Therefore all artists have only one responsibility : to tell the truth.
Although an artist may, in their private life, lie to others, even to themselves, when they create they tell the truth. In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
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