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Old 25-March-2008, 09:54 PM
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If by "understand" you mean "finding something worthy" in the film, something that pleases you and stimulates you, something where you find a meaning, then that's exactly what I feel: that those who take pleasure on egging supposedly "elitist" films like 2001 failed to understand them. Their loss.
By "understand" I mean, well, "understand". By "appreciate" I mean "finding something worthy". It's possible to do the former without the latter. Films aren't elitist, just some of their fans. I have a problem with the "you don't like what I like, so you can't be as smart as me" attitude, you see.
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