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All right.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I've got three pieces for you.

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Can you hear OK?

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I tested this out, but
you can't really be sure.

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It's also the first time
I've actually read in a mask.

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So I'll do the best I can.

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"A Blue Ring Seen
Through Water."

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"I watch Predator every
night to help me sleep.

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It doesn't work so I repeat.

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To say I'm still
watching the film closely

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isn't exact enough.

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I mean, I watch the
movie frame by frame

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so slowly it's no longer
a movie, but film.

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Happy illusion of the form.

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The frame's illusion that
we perceive as motion.

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It's totally kick ass,
of course, at full speed,

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but seen as slowly as
this, it opens differently.

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It ain't just guns and fun.

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One by one through 24 frames
per second, it's often tedium.

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Action film gone ambient.

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As a result, I find beauty
leaking around a tree

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in an establishing shot.

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Then pyro light explodes
in lines telling us

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something about physics.

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Cause and effect, and the
only thing that matters

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is how it looks.

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Something happens and keeps
on happening and won't

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stop until I do, or
the movie ends, or I

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realize what it is I'm
watching and assert control.

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Unexpected shots abound,
inaccessible to all

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but the most obsessive viewer.

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The wipe that clears the screen
between bits of the Predator's

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POV looks like an ellipse
of blue light seen

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through dark green water.

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It's an opening you might
use to speak to an oracle,

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or an open eye, a wishing
well seen from underneath down

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in it looking out.

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But the more I look
at it, the more

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I see a reflection of
a body in the center

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of the shot, something in
there staring right back at me.

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And I wonder what portal I
may have opened accidentally

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by calling the wrong god's name.

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Is that me in Predator?

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Or better, what of me
is not in Predator?

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I could spend a life down here.

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For you it takes three
hundredths of a second."

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