Linkage

"It comes from a deep-rooted conviction that if there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word 'love' has the same meaning for everybody. Or 'fear', or 'suffering'. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division."

-- Polish filmmaker Krzystof Kieslowski, in a 1995 interview

I just watched the Double Life of Veronique last night. I think I like the Polish Weronika better than the French Veronique. Even though the film came out a decade or so before "Amelie," it's hard not to think of it during the Parisian scenes.

Anyway I liked this quote from KK. Especially on inauguration eve.