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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.67,0:00:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evidence suggests that humans in all ages and from all cultures
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.34,0:00:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create their identity in some kind of narrative form.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.49,0:00:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From mother to daughter, preacher to congregant,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.23,0:00:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teacher to pupil, storyteller to audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.29,0:00:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether in cave paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.08,0:00:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the latest uses of the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.71,0:00:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human beings have always told their histories and truths
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.54,0:00:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through parable and fable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.100,0:00:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are inveterate storytellers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.48,0:00:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.86,0:00:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do we offer communality of experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.96,0:00:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unmediated by our own furious consumerism?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.31,0:00:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what narrative, what history,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.81,0:00:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what identity, what moral code
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.49,0:00:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are we imparting to our young?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.84,0:00:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cinema is arguably
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.72,0:00:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 20th century's most influential art form.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.31,0:00:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its artists told stories
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.36,0:01:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across national boundaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.64,0:01:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in as many languages, genres and philosophies
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.51,0:01:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one can imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.76,0:01:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, it is hard to find a subject
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.39,0:01:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that film has yet to tackle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.41,0:01:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the last decade
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.06,0:01:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've seen a vast integration of global media,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.47,0:01:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now dominated by a culture of the Hollywood blockbuster.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.86,0:01:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are increasingly offered a diet
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.27,0:01:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which sensation, not story, is king.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.76,0:01:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was common to us all 40 years ago --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.19,0:01:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the telling of stories between generations --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.99,0:01:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now rarified.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.07,0:01:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a filmmaker, it worried me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.32,0:01:36.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a human being, it puts the fear of God in me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.19,0:01:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What future could the young build
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.61,0:01:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with so little grasp
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.97,0:01:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of where they've come from
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.76,0:01:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so few narratives of what's possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.82,0:01:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The irony is palpable;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.46,0:01:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technical access has never been greater,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.96,0:01:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultural access never weaker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.03,0:01:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in 2006 we set up FILMCLUB,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.36,0:02:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an organization that ran weekly film screenings in schools
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.40,0:02:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,followed by discussions.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.48,0:02:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we could raid the annals of 100 years of film,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.21,0:02:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe we could build a narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.28,0:02:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would deliver meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.83,0:02:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the fragmented and restless world of the young.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.91,0:02:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given the access to technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.52,0:02:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a school in a tiny rural hamlet
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.25,0:02:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could project a DVD onto a white board.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.95,0:02:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first nine months
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.78,0:02:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we ran 25 clubs across the U.K.,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.13,0:02:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with kids in age groups between five and 18
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.20,0:02:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watching a film uninterrupted for 90 minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.23,0:02:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The films were curated and contextualized.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.11,0:02:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the choice was theirs,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.86,0:02:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our audience quickly grew
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.68,0:02:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to choose the richest and most varied diet that we could provide.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.91,0:02:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The outcome, immediate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.71,0:02:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an education of the most profound and transformative kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.30,0:02:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In groups as large as 150 and as small as three,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.63,0:02:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these young people discovered new places,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.35,0:03:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new thoughts, new perspectives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.26,0:03:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time the pilot had finished,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.40,0:03:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had the names of a thousand schools
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.23,0:03:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that wished to join.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.05,0:03:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The film that changed my life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.67,0:03:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, "Miracle in Milan."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.64,0:03:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a remarkable comment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.39,0:03:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on slums, poverty and aspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.72,0:03:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had seen the film on the occasion of my father's 50th birthday.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.96,0:03:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Technology then meant we had to hire a viewing cinema,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.92,0:03:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find and pay for the print and the projectionist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.89,0:03:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for my father,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.57,0:03:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the emotional and artistic importance of De Sica's vision was so great
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.35,0:03:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he chose to celebrate his half-century
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.98,0:03:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with his three teenage children and 30 of their friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.85,0:03:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In order," he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.20,0:03:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to pass the baton of concern and hope
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.67,0:03:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on to the next generation."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.15,0:03:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the last shot of "Miracle in Milan,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.92,0:03:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slum-dwellers float skyward on flying brooms.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.87,0:04:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sixty years after the film was made
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.40,0:04:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 30 years after I first saw it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.60,0:04:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see young faces tilt up in awe,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.15,0:04:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their incredulity matching mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.42,0:04:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the speed with which they associate it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.92,0:04:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with "Slumdog Millionaire" or the favelas in Rio
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.54,0:04:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks to the enduring nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.49,0:04:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a FILMCLUB season about democracy and government,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.60,0:04:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we screened "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.52,0:04:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made in 1939, the film is older than most of our members' grandparents.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.94,0:04:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frank Capra's classic values independence and propriety.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.08,0:04:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shows how to do right,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.64,0:04:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to be heroically awkward.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.37,0:04:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also an expression of faith
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.12,0:04:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the political machine as a force of honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.65,0:04:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after "Mr. Smith" became a FILMCLUB classic,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.13,0:04:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a week of all-night filibustering in the House of Lords.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.80,0:04:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was with great delight
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.08,0:04:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we found young people up and down the country
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.73,0:04:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explaining with authority
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.57,0:04:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what filibustering was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.58,0:05:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why the Lords might defy their bedtime on a point of principle.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.10,0:05:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, Jimmy Stewart filibustered for two entire reels.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.23,0:05:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In choosing "Hotel Rwanda,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.30,0:05:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they explored genocide of the most brutal kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.58,0:05:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It provoked tears as well as incisive questions
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.12,0:05:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about unarmed peace-keeping forces
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.92,0:05:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the double-dealing of a Western society
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.60,0:05:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.53,0:05:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when "Schindler's List" demanded that they never forget,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.60,0:05:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one child, full of the pain of consciousness, remarked,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.72,0:05:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We already forgot,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.98,0:05:40.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,otherwise how did 'Hotel Rwanda' happen?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.100,0:05:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As they watch more films their lives got palpably richer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.77,0:05:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pickpocket" started a debate about criminality disenfranchisement.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.40,0:05:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To Sir, with Love" ignited its teen audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.27,0:05:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They celebrated a change in attitude
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.92,0:05:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards non-white Britons,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.62,0:06:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but railed against our restless school system
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.04,0:06:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that does not value collective identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.08,0:06:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlike that offered by Sidney Poitier's careful tutelage.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.15,0:06:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By now, these thoughtful, opinionated, curious young people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.26,0:06:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought nothing of tackling films of all forms --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.10,0:06:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black and white, subtitled,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.42,0:06:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,documentary, non-narrative, fantasy --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.15,0:06:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thought nothing of writing detailed reviews
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.85,0:06:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that competed to favor one film over another
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.33,0:06:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in passionate and increasingly sophisticated prose.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.16,0:06:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six thousand reviews each school week
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.32,0:06:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vying for the honor of being review of the week.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.84,0:06:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From 25 clubs, we became hundreds, then thousands,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.90,0:06:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we were nearly a quarter of a million kids
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.98,0:06:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 7,000 clubs right across the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.40,0:06:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And although the numbers were, and continue to be, extraordinary,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.28,0:06:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what became more extraordinary
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.56,0:06:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was how the experience of critical and curious questioning
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.12,0:07:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,translated into life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.63,0:07:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of our kids started talking with their parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.50,0:07:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others with their teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.27,0:07:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or with their friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.25,0:07:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those without friends
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.95,0:07:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started making them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.15,0:07:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The films provided communality across all manner of divide.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.47,0:07:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the stories they held provided a shared experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.58,0:07:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Persepolis" brought a daughter closer to her Iranian mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.00,0:07:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "Jaws" became the way in which one young boy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.80,0:07:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was able to articulate the fear he'd experienced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.37,0:07:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in flight from violence
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.92,0:07:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that killed first his father then his mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.90,0:07:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the latter thrown overboard on a boat journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.78,0:07:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who was right, who wrong?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.74,0:07:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would they do under the same conditions?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.86,0:07:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was the tale told well?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.41,0:07:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was there a hidden message?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.01,0:07:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How has the world changed? How could it be different?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.74,0:07:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tsunami of questions flew out of the mouths of children
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.62,0:07:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who the world didn't think were interested.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.37,0:07:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they themselves had not known they cared.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.84,0:08:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as they wrote and debated,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.76,0:08:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than seeing the films as artifacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.72,0:08:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they began to see themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.79,0:08:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have an aunt who is a wonderful storyteller.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.95,0:08:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a moment she can invoke images
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.11,0:08:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of running barefoot on Table Mountain and playing cops and robbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.07,0:08:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quite recently she told me
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.64,0:08:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in 1948, two of her sisters and my father
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.04,0:08:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traveled on a boat to Israel without my grandparents.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.69,0:08:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the sailors mutinied at sea in a demand for humane conditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.15,0:08:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was these teenagers that fed the crew.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.89,0:08:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was past 40 when my father died.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.04,0:08:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never mentioned that journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.59,0:08:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother's mother left Europe in a hurry
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.27,0:08:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without her husband, but with her three-year-old daughter
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.67,0:08:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and diamonds sewn into the hem of her skirt.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.50,0:08:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After two years in hiding,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.78,0:08:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my grandfather appeared in London.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.62,0:08:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was never right again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.92,0:09:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his story was hushed as he assimilated.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.62,0:09:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My story started in England
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.56,0:09:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a clean slate and the silence of immigrant parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.82,0:09:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had "Anne Frank," "The Great Escape,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.97,0:09:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shoah," "Triumph of the Will."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.49,0:09:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Leni Riefenstahl
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.54,0:09:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in her elegant Nazi propaganda
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.32,0:09:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who gave context to what the family had to endure.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.23,0:09:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These films held what was too hurtful to say out loud,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.88,0:09:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they became more useful to me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.23,0:09:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the whispers of survivors
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.95,0:09:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the occasional glimpse of a tattoo
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.88,0:09:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a maiden aunt's wrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.73,0:09:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Purists may feel that fiction dissipates
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.52,0:09:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the quest of real human understanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.52,0:09:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that film is too crude
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.02,0:09:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell a complex and detailed history,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.45,0:09:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that filmmakers always serve drama over truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.70,0:09:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But within the reels lie purpose and meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.83,0:10:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As one 12-year-old said after watching "Wizard of Oz,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.10,0:10:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Every person should watch this,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.40,0:10:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because unless you do
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.25,0:10:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may not know that you too have a heart."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.92,0:10:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We honor reading, why not honor watching with the same passion?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.32,0:10:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider "Citizen Kane" as valuable as Jane Austen.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.61,0:10:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agree that "Boyz n the Hood," like Tennyson,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.81,0:10:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offers an emotional landscape and a heightened understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.83,0:10:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that work together.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.58,0:10:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each a piece of memorable art,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.11,0:10:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each a brick in the wall of who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.56,0:10:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's okay if we remember Tom Hanks
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.42,0:10:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better than astronaut Jim Lovell
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.48,0:10:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or have Ben Kingsley's face superimposed onto that of Gandhi's.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.04,0:10:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And though not real, Eve Harrington, Howard Beale, Mildred Pierce
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.60,0:10:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are an opportunity to discover
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.29,0:10:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it is to be human,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.71,0:10:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no less helpful to understanding our life and times
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.74,0:10:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Shakespeare is in illuminating the world of Elizabethan England.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.49,0:11:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We guessed that film,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.06,0:11:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose stories are a meeting place
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.06,0:11:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of drama, music, literature and human experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.29,0:11:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would engage and inspire the young people participating in FILMCLUB.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.79,0:11:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we could not have foreseen
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.32,0:11:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the measurable improvements
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.96,0:11:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in behavior, confidence and academic achievement.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.68,0:11:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once-reluctant students now race to school, talk to their teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.96,0:11:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fight, not on the playground,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.44,0:11:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to choose next week's film --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.58,0:11:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young people who have found self-definition, ambition
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.16,0:11:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an appetite for education and social engagement
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.41,0:11:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the stories they have witnessed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.38,0:11:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our members defy the binary description
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.76,0:11:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how we so often describe our young.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.58,0:11:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are neither feral nor myopically self-absorbed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.56,0:11:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are, like other young people,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.33,0:11:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,negotiating a world with infinite choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.79,0:11:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but little culture of how to find meaningful experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.49,0:11:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We appeared surprised at the behaviors
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.13,0:12:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those who define themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.12,0:12:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the size of the tick on their shoes,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.33,0:12:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet acquisition has been the narrative we have offered.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.58,0:12:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we want different values
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.39,0:12:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to tell a different story,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.86,0:12:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a story that understands that an individual narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.86,0:12:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an essential component of a person's identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.72,0:12:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a collective narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.49,0:12:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an essential component of a cultural identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.47,0:12:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and without it it is impossible to imagine yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.21,0:12:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of a group.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.61,0:12:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when these people get home
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.66,0:12:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after a screening of "Rear Window"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.18,0:12:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and raise their gaze to the building next door,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.93,0:12:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have the tools to wonder who, apart from them,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.60,0:12:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is out there
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.16,0:12:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is their story.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.70,0:12:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.35,0:12:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)