Film Is Lies At Twenty-four

The Smarter People I Know Declined To Watch The Most Recent Debate [with Donald Trump].

People Think In Narratives - In Beginnings, Middles And Ends. The Danger When You Edit Something Too Severely Is That It No Longer Makes Sense; Worse Still, It Leaves People With The Disquieting Impression That Something Is Being Hidden.

You Can Ask Yourself, If A Film Makes A Claim, Is The Claim True Or False? Having Said That, A Style Of Presenting Material Doesn't Guarantee Truth. There's This Crazy Idea That Somehow You Pick A Style, And By Virtue Of Picking The Style, You've Provided Something That Is More Truthful. It's As If You Imagine That Changing The Font On A Sentence You Write Makes It More Truthful.

People Often Trust Low-res Images Because They Look More Real. But Of Course They Are Not More Real, Just Easier To Fake. [...] You Never See A 10-megapixel Photograph Of Big Foot Or The Abominable Snowman Or The Loch Ness Monster.

I've Been Horribly Depressed (lately), Which, As You Know, Can Be Terribly Time-consuming. I Mean, If You're Going To Do It Right, That Is.