Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
All this situation does is remind people of the incredible power and potency of the Internet.
