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The best way to understand...


this film is to take Harry Potter for instance. Remember the moving photographs in the newspapers? Or the living wall paintings? Those things aren't real (yet) but imagine if they were. Imagine how interesting that would be atleast initially. This is similar to how amazing and innovative this little piece of cinema is. One easy way to see this is how the people moved very randomly and with almost little purpose or direction. They were only demonstrating that a picture can move, well without flipbooks, which are older than this piece of work.

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Obviously, you're not a golfer...

There IS a plot, but it might take a few viewings to get.

I take it as an insult that you think those actors were merely moving randomly. Well, if that's the case, it's incredible how well their movements fit the plot.

The Dude abides

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