That reminds me of an interesting "revelation" I had on LSD last Monday, which I was going to post here, but forgot.
And that is, the entire concept of a movie with "actors", as a form of art, is a failure (with some exceptions which I will note).
You see, people recognize the beauty in human beings, their personalities, situations, and endeavors. Then, they decide that if they film actors pretending to be who they are not, and pretending to have beliefs and aspirations and friends and tastes in clothing that they don't really have, those actors will become much more interesting, exciting, and beautiful, because if we just filmed them being themselves and responding to situations in a genuine way, they would be much too dull.
I realized that this is simply not true. It's a ridiculous failure to see the beauty in real people, rather than the shallow and stunted "personalities" that we try to deliberately create for films. Seeing an interview of a genuinely intelligent and accomplished or otherwise interesting individual, speaking honestly of their views or achievements, is always a supreme delight for me, whereas almost all movies with actors bore me to no mercy. And this is actually a conclusion that logically follows a belief about artistry that I've held for quite some time now: that truly beautiful artwork, whether music, poetry, literature, painting, or dancing, must come from the artist in a completely natural fashion. That is to say, the artist must not be consciously attempting to create something beautiful, or to put on a show: he or she must simply be creating the artwork for the joy of the creative process itself, and the fact that it happens to please an audience is just incidental to this personal pleasure.
I have seen movies which I have enjoyed, I must admit, but I suspect that the so-called "actors" in this movie that I appreciated weren't really acting. I believe that they were employing the wisdom of natural and unintended beauty, and so they actually became the roles that they played for the duration that they were filmed, by skillfully manipulating their own fundamental psychology, and so their behavior in front of the camera was more or less genuine.
