Sometimes you watch a movie and it strikes you. It grips into your brains and refuses to leave them alone until you mule over every last second of the film. I hate it and yet, how sweet is the time when you're free from the terror of pondering. There's not to say that it's not an enjoyable process all around. Rather, I would think, it's like a labor of the mind. Admittedly, only a good movie would make you think, a film with words and images that spark doubt. Was it right to be this way or another? What am I to do now? What are we supposed to do now?

And in the end, we do nothing. We suffer through the muling and the pondering and the dissection and then we let it float away. As sad as it might be, it's for the better. If we all started our own little thought revolutions, there wouldn't be any peace on earth. Homogeneity of thought is a better path for society to take. Then, I would think, films, books, art, and dance would have to be outlawed. They provoke us to think too much. For just as Julius Caesar commented about Cassius "He thinks too much and such men are dangerous," I believe so too. Thought is a weapon, far more powerful than a nuclear blast or a vacuum bomb, that we so often underestimate. Mere thought overturns mountains because thought produced TNT. Thought bound the world to serve us.

So why then, do I bother myself with wonder why some people are devoid of it? It's good that some are not meant to think. It saves a whole lot of trouble for future generations. So yeah.... I should stop watching movies on youtube.



Jonathan Meyer