Fox Kerry
Applaudience
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1 min readNov 10, 2015

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Alejandro is a master at what he does with a camera and actors. so I hate to disagree with him. But there is a galactic difference between calling someone or their behavior “undocumented” versus “illegal”. Undocumented is as much a downplayment of what is meant by illegal as illegal is an overemphasis on someone’s worth by focusing on one criminal act. The point is that rules do matter. Even if people hyperfocus on another’s sin and overlook their own, even in a time where people can’t even hardly agree on what is a breaking of law and is there even a law, we all do need law. It doesn’t mean there can’t be exceptions and that there can’t be mercy. But mercy is when Michael Keaton’s character in Inarritu’s smashingly successful Birdman gets to live long enough to feel his estranged wife’s kisses and estranged daughter’s head upon his chest (even though he has still been an ultra-self-absorbed ghost of a man). Mercy is not declaring that someone has not breached a neighbor’s house when indeed they have. Whether or not that person was desperate enough to almost have to do it is another question entirely. And whether or not the neighbor would have done nobly and wonderfully to have opened his door willingly, yet again another dynamic for a different part of the conversation! But we play with laws at our own peril, just as we do when we bastardize words and concepts.

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Fox Kerry
Applaudience

If you paint for me even one thing which is true, perhaps I’ll be tempted to consider two. I tell tales poetically, someone else needs to set them to music.