The Importance of Greatness

Watching a great film is like eating a great dish—it tells us, reminds us, how it can be, how it should be. Some may fear that it would make the infinite multitude of mindless tasteless mediocrity unbearable. To me it is the opposite. It gives me hope in the otherwise overwhelmingly unbearable world. It would be really hard if all there were but Justine Timberlake and Mel Gibson. To know that greatness and truthfulness are not only possible but that they do exist, however rare and fleeting they may be, that alone is enough to live on.