Encountering excellence - and beyond excellence, actual genius - in creative work is a great way of dealing with the trials of life.
I was reminded of this truth today when I chanced upon an excellent video essay on the crafting of the music for the soundtrack of Kubrick's The Shining. It's only in recent years that I've become aware of just how much the music adds to the visceral horror of the movie, but now I've heard it I, happily, can't unhear its brilliance. And the video makes us aware of a magical truth: the synchronisation of music and image and the rest of the soundtrack wasn't planned in the conventional sense. It just sort of happened, I suppose because bona fide geniuses were at work.
And to think that when I first saw the film I wasn't really impressed by it. (Evidence, if necessary, that I'm certainly no genius.)
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