Cinema _ all art really _ has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.
There either is or is not, that__ the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it__ red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I__ not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I__ going to tell it the way I remember it._ Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón
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There either is or is not, that__ the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it__ red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I__ not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I__ going to tell it the way I remember it._ Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón
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