Rectify2013

Peggy:
[joining him in front of a painting] What do you think?

Daniel Holden:
What do I think? Well, I think I have looked at this painting for so long in a in a book that somehow my brain has trivialized it. And, uh, now as I stand here in front of the real thing, I feel, if anything, disappointment.

Peggy:
Oh, that's too bad.

Daniel Holden:
Well, not at the painting itself. More at my brain, I guess.

Peggy:
I think the brain's afraid of being in a state of constant wonder. It's for safety reasons or something.

Daniel Holden:
I suppose it's inevitable.

Peggy:
Usually by the time we're four.

Daniel Holden:
Then there's the the issue of great expectations.

Peggy:
Something the brain doesn't seem the least bit interested in protecting us from.

Daniel Holden:
[chuckles] No.

Peggy:
Well, I think we should reinstate wonder, banish expectation.

Daniel Holden:
I concur.