...as the words faded from the screen, I heard this — eulogistic, yes, but a eulogy filled with peace, with pride, and with hope. Mr. Horner had penned something as essential to my ability to digest and respond to the film as were the images themselves.

We all instinctively recognize that our responses to a work such as this one say a great deal both about the work itself and about its author. Far less often (but far more instructively, in many cases) do we recognize what our responses to a work say about us. And that might be the most important lesson of all.

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