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Monday 30 July 2007

I want you to consider a movie made up of several short scenes in which ordinary circumstances turn out ordinarily. Imagine a passenger on a plane being scared, and then the plane lands safely. Picture a woman in an elevator when an unusual-looking man gets on, and he then just gets off on his floor. Parents hire a babysitter, and then they arrive home with nothing eventful occurring. Customers go into a bank to make a withdrawal, and they leave a few minutes later with their money. A man pursues his dream of playing professional ball, and he gets cut, returning to his job in the lumber yard. In short, I’d love to see a movie that showed life as it usually is: boring. Which is exactly why it won’t get made. But that’s the point. What we see in movies is deliberately exceptional. And in never presenting the “whole truth,” such repeated presentation of extraordinary events distorts our view of the world. Reality may be boring, but at least it has going for it the fact that it’s reality. Andrew Tallman

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