Glad to learn that our Brother TK recently stumbled upon this noir gem, "Touch of Evil." Surely nobody can really understand the plot, much like many great films, such Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and Godfather. Yet moment-by-moment these films seize hold of us, and populate our memories, even despite logic-defying developments. Why is this? Why do so many of the great films comprise incomprehensible plots, and illogical concepts? My film study leads me to this answer: because films are emotion-generating machines, not information narrations. These great films succeed because they succeed in auguring their audiences through a succession of emotions. Our inability to comprehend the plots, or to accept the logical of some developments, does not preclude us from experiancing the emotions transmitted to us by the procession of images and sounds from the screen.
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