A friend of mine complained that she and others like seeing movies but afterwards hardly talk about them... "Oh, yes," they might well say: "Pretty good", "Bad" or "I don't know"- but conversations don't ever go much further. I think the cause of their silence is often that a film covers a subject that they have never experienced and therefore suffer a vocabulary-blank. They can't come up with any words to express any thoughts. And if they don't know the words, they can't come up with the thoughts. It is like they are dumb with someone else's life. ...
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