Well one of the things about cinema that I just find very moving, it's why it's my favorite art form, is to me when you go to a movie and you see a certain sequence and if there is real cinematic power and cinematic flair (there are certain film makers out there that you feel were touched by God to make movies) it will be a combination of editing and sound, usually visual images connected with music or something but when those things work and they really really connect (i.e. the final gun fight sequence in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - a sequence I can't ever imagine topping) it's like you forget to breath. You are really transported to a different place, and music doesn't quite do that on it's own, and novels don't quite do it, and a painting doesn't quite do it, they do it their way certainly, but in cinema especially if you're in a theatre and you are sharing the experience with a bunch of other people so there's this mass thing going on, ah... it's just truly, truly, thrilling. And if the movie is more than that, if there's a lot underneath, if there is more there, there and you go out and have a piece of pie and coffee and you talk about it, you find there is more to talk about.
I couldn't have said it better... Some of my favorite memories with my father are going for coffee and pie after a seeing a film and talking. xo P.
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