THE PRESERVATION OF FILM IS SO VERY IMPORTANT. PARTICULARLY WITH OUR GLOBAL PLAN BEING DEVELOPED, FLICKS CAN HELP SENSITIZE US AND LEARN RESPECT FOR CULTURES DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN...UNDERSTANDING IS THE KEY AS WELL AS COMMUNICATION...NOT NECESSARILY WITH WORDS...VISUALS ARE VERY POWERFUL...WE CREATE OUR WORLD AROUND THEM...FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
IN THE PAST WE HAVE BEEN UNKIND TO PEOPLE WHO SEEM DIFFERENT FROM OURSELVES, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN THE MINORITY IN HOW THEY THINK AND BEHAVE...OUR VALUES SEEMINGLY OFTEN ASKEW AND LOPSIDED, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON, AS PARENTS, TEACHERS (FORMAL AND INFORMAL) AND AS, INTERPRETERS OF LIFE WITHOUT TRYING...ARTISTS WE ARE, THOUGH THEY CALL US BY MANY OTHER NAMES, CRAZY, STUPID, DISRESPECTFUL...AND SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, I AM OF COURSE, AND HAVE BEEN ALL OF THESE AND MORE...
YET, IN ALL CASES, LIKE YOU, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, ME.
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