And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. Filmmakers of Cinema Verit resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
Each year at springtime scores of people on snowmobiles crash through the melting ice on the lakes of Minnesota and drown. Pressure is mounting on the new governor to pass a protective law. The gauntlet is hereby thrown down. The moon is dull. And don t you listen to the Song of Life.