Perhaps quite by accident, this movie is one of the greatest American films ever made. Like perhaps all great movies it exists on a number of levels. It is in the first instance about the subject of its title, the demise of the neighborhood movie theater, and of the neighborhoods and towns of which it was a central institution. On another level it is several complex love stories. Most of all, it is about the meaning of the human experiment. It asks us what is it that, in the cold, windy, indifferent universe, gives human life meaning?
And for this viewer it answers the question forcefully. Human life is indeed fragile. It is the love we feel for each other, and the compassion we show towards each other, that gives meaning to human life. When an opportunity to love is lost, when an opportunity to act compassionately is missed, the lost is irretrievable.
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