[filmmaker2]

Well, I mean, physical beauty is not limited to a nice face or pretty eyes. It can also be a nice butt and many other things too! Even a finger or a wrist and a little bitty toe can be cute.

What surprises me is how susceptible we are. No matter how intellectual we are, most of us are suckers for nice physical proportions. I am frequently startled watching old movies. I might see a recorded image of someone's physical attractiveness from sixty or a hundred years ago, even, and can still be awed by it. And it's not even the real person--just some light that recorded on film emulsion decades ago. The actual person could be a skeleton, or just some dust, but a recording of their beauty can live on, frozen in a medium.

I used to date a girl back in the 80's who has been in a lot of horror films and so on. That was quite some time ago, nearly twenty years back! She doesn't look the same now, and neither do I; something happened to us over the years and we got older.

When I see her in a movie that was made back when we were seeing each other, it's really haunting...it's weird...it's like looking through a window, looking back through time, and there she is, sitting in the car or whatever, walking around...and it's HER from back then, but that version of her has changed and is gone now...that image of her is just a celluloid memory...and you know, I keep wanting to go back and see her in person the way she was, but that's impossible. All that's left is the image.