A basic thing to be apprehended about film is its potential to reach you, mind and heart, grip you and hold you for extended time in state of discovery and wonder. You might become enrapt, still, at attention, as you anticipate the movement of the visual story. Film may foster thoughts and emotions as it plays out, that have big meaning for the viewer/observer. Film may inspire.
The 2016 movie, 'Paterson,' by Jim Jarmusch, inspired above thoughts. As I watched final scene, the actor at still point on bench, opposite Great Falls of Passaic River, in between loss, sorrow and question/wonder of possible renewal, restart of his poetic vocation, the words 'beauty' and 'beautiful' came to mind. One, seeing a film, may contemplate beauty in context of film's images and words and find aesthetic experience reborn in self.
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