Thursday, June 02, 2005

Multi-Layered

I recently watched the movie Primer. I think its safe to say that its impossible to understand it fully upon your first meeting with it.
These are my favorite kind of movies and my favorite kind of people.
Who wants to see a movie that tells you simply everything it is the first time you watch it? And who wants to get to know someone who you feel like you already know after one meeting?

I think people are like Primer. You cant know them just on one meeting. How many times have I made a judgment about someone after my first couple impressions of them, only to have that thwarted as I get to know them deeper?
We are complexly made. How can I be so arrogant as to assume I know who you are after such a short time?

The movie Crash does a great job of revealing depth and complexity in humanity. It sets you up to judge someone because of how evil they are, then changes your mind by having them act out of love. It shows we all have good, and evil in us.

I will withhold judgment, and I will assume I can never fully know the level of good someone is capable of.

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