Art

Judging the value of a film or any form of artistic achievement is like judging a cake by its icing unless we go back to its very inception.

The face value of its finished form can be enhanced a million times over by what lay the foundation.

The thought that created it, the writer who wrote that idea down, the writer who forced the idea into a presentable format, the people who were hired to produce its parts and the people who depended on them and the people who created the products that all these people use, as well as the directors and actual producers -- all of these people benefited from something long before it became a finished product.

And then afterwards, the benefits continue to go forward from and for those who show it, and watch it, and learn from it, and carry its idea into other realities.

Art is not a frivolous past time. The seemingly most useless production can have far reaching benefits most of us never even consider.

I take art seriously. It is the voice of a society who cares about something and what that something is, or how much it touches us, defines who we are.