I finally watched Miranda July’s movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and because her movie was in competition with my movie at Sundance, I will never ever pass judgment on it. I just want Annie Wagner to know that I have seen this movie with my own eyes. However, I will share this quote and leave it at that:

“The ‘beautiful soul,’ lacking an actual existence, entangled in the contradiction between its pure self and the necessity of that self to externalize itself and change itself into an actual existence, and dwelling in the immediacy of this firmly held antithesisan immediacy which alone is the middle term reconciling the antithesis, which has been intensified to its pure abstraction, and is pure being or empty nothingnessthis ‘beautiful soul,’ then, being conscious of this contradiction in its unreconciled immediacy, is disordered to the point of madness, wastes itself in yearning and pines away in consumption.”

G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit