In some of Mash's previous posts I debated the value of critically analysing everything. Basically I was saying that it's clear that some things are just fluff and should be treated as such. THat there was little value (for me at least) in bothering to engage with them on any level outside "mere" enetertainment.

I am currently reading Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis, an autobiogrpahy of his early life. In it he has this to say about his favourite teacher at Wyvern College.

"He madfe us feel that the scholar's demand for accuracy was not merely pedantic, still less an arbitrary moral discipline, but rather a niceness, a delicacy, to lague which argued "a gross and swainish disposition". I began to see that the reader who misses the syntactical points in a poem is missing aesthetic points as well."

I wonder what he would have said of most movies...