"Some images touch and wound the soul at its center. A human face that inspires at the same time both desire and the dread of approaching it, because of the fear of harming it, whose change we cannot imagine, and whose extreme fragility we intensely feel, which tears up our soul by the roots, and which makes us sense that we are nailed to it, is that kind of image." -- Simone Weil
One of our great movie critics David Walsh has put together a brilliant essay (and matching PowerPoint presentation) taking us through the collapse of what was once the heart and soul of American movies: the democratic spirit.