A Random Xmas Thought
From Jim Kunstler, an observation most of us simply supress:
Do you know why scenes or even just shots of freeways so seldom appear in the movies we watch? Because they are so depressing that nobody can stand to see them. The jolts of terror that you get in a horror movie at least inform you that you're alive, but the sight of a freeway only reminds you of what it's like to be dead.
Very similar to Douglass Adams' opening to the first Dirk Gently novel where he notes that no word in any human language has a phrase that translates to "as pretty as an airport."
Do you know why scenes or even just shots of freeways so seldom appear in the movies we watch? Because they are so depressing that nobody can stand to see them. The jolts of terror that you get in a horror movie at least inform you that you're alive, but the sight of a freeway only reminds you of what it's like to be dead.
Very similar to Douglass Adams' opening to the first Dirk Gently novel where he notes that no word in any human language has a phrase that translates to "as pretty as an airport."