Some movies permit a complete cessation of normal thought and instead provide a totally logical-within-itself world where one may visit, and revisit, as often as one likes. I'm talking about those that have artistic or evocative qualities that take one far beyond the usual suspension of disbelief.

Some of these movies reach down so deep that I find that any half hour of one, even if that's all the time I have for rewatching it, evokes the whole experience of falling into and savoring that world, all over again-- including that aspect of rewatching and re-experiencing that brings to mind how we have changed, grown, etc. since the last times with that movie.

I call those "Any-Half-Hour Movies." Some of them are corny, some historically inaccurate, some painful, some challenging, some mysterious.... except for great cinematography there is no single, right thing they have in common except that while you're there, you're nowhere else.

One of my favorite Any-Half-Hour Movies: Out of Africa.

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~Susan