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Rites of Passage
► Transitions
Life and editing are a series of transitions. The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclites observed over 2,000 years ago, “You can’t step in the same river twice.” Everything changes, including the river and the person stepping into it. Great pleasures will eventually fall away and, fortunately, bad times will end as well. When you fall in love or fall out of love, when a new life begins or someone dies, when you marry or move or change jobs, you experience the effects of transition. How we move from one event to another has a significant effect on our mental and physical health. Film is a constant flow of transitions since it is the story of our lives, cut by cut.
Doctor’s Note
As the joke reminds us, Nietzsche ...
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