ART!
What the hell is it?
I can't tell you what it IS, but, I can tell you what I think it does.
Art changes you.
It stops you cold in your tracks.
When you finally walk away from it you keep on thinking about it.
You can't shrug it off easily.
It's now a different world for you.
Great ART bestows an impact on your consciousness. It penetrates down to your core values and the motor of emotion itself.
We keep those things in our vault, but, ART knows the combination and violates the "given".
We must reassess, recalibrate and rethink.
That's great ART.
It is also rare.
Mostly we have art with no capitals.
We have a point of view.....or a technique....or an idea dressed in Sunday best and a spit shine.
Or....
We have something else. 
A movie perhaps.
Not that a movie can't be art.
A politician can tell the truth......sometimes......inadvertently. A movie is like politics. 
It craves popularity and has an easy way with manipulation. Movies seem important and they want your money while promising to DO something for you.
But, movies and politicians aren't reality...they are storytelling and the framing of things a....certain way.
Make you feel good or infuriate you or stir things up so that you want to tell others.
Once in a moon (the blue kind) you have a movie that is ART. I've seen a few.
Nobody knows how to make one. Not on purpose.
They just happen. The virgin conceives and a child is born.
Call it a miracle if you like.
We know it when it happens to us. But, everything else is just popcorn.
A great face splashed on a silver screen...
a compelling story well told...
music that wells up inside your soul and lifts you off your planet...
and that afterglow....that tickle of original feeling that lingers....and revisits in the nightime....maybe your whole life long.
Like I said; everything else is popcorn and politician promises. 