Charlie Kaufman/Robert Frost/Jeffrey Overstreet

"It's important to me, when I'm doing this stuff, to be truthful. Truthful, in a sense that it's truthful to me ... because that's all I can do. If I feel like I'm doing something honest, then I feel like I'm not putting garbage into the world. It's my experience, and therefore it has some veracity. This is a true moment as I've understood it ... and then I try to translate it into a scene."

Charlie Kaufman discussing Eternal Sunbshine of the Spotless Mind

"Poetry is a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget."

Robert Frost

both quotes were cited in Overstreet, Jeffrey. Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies. Ventura, CA: Regal, 2007: 35, 36

I highly recommend this film book. Overstreet is a Christian film/music/cultural scholar who is open, honest and fearless in his critiques.



Check out his website Looking Closer and in particular his statement on the purpose of Looking Closer.

Thanks Jeffrey for providing me with a good model of Christian film analysis for my film courses.