In the slot that you sliced through the scene there was no shyness.
In the plot that you passed through your teeth there was no pity.
No fade in: film begins on a kid in the big city.
And no cut to a costly parade (that’s for him only!).
No dissolve to a sliver of grey (that’s his new lady!)
where she glows just like grain on the flickering pane of some great movie.
To say that the aughts were memorable to me would be a vast understatement. Started the 2000 as an idealistic 20-year young man, but ended the decade as a 30-year old with more questions than answers. Aristotle nailed it when he...