"It was just like being in a film...," we sometimes tell one another- and what do we mean by that？ We say it when an event, an incident, a detail, perhaps, suddenly stands out with a clarity that comes from somewhere el.se than the event itself. The event in which we may be involved takes on the appearance or feel of a motif, an image, a scene. You say goodbye - and in the same instant a flock of birds rises, the light falls in a particuIar way, accompanying sounds are heard; it's all coincidental, but it fits the situation, which suddenl.y seems pre-arranged - and thus just like a film. Forwe read films as pictures too. We are alert, sitting there in the dark, we keep an eye on what is happening and how it all, looks. ...