The shadow to the left of the spire is worth considering in an Icarus style story of a photograph. Of course photographs can be engineered and in truth its probably little more than a smudge, but when you are writing fiction the smudge is what the imagination makes it and of course the 'probably' is crucial word. I mean it could be many things, unexplained. You can't just dismiss the possible or the plausible or indeed the implausible just because there might be an explanation for it - because of course there might not be. That is the task of the writer, to persuade the reader that what is on the page is really real, even when it isn't. Film makers do this all the time. I recently had a conversation with a Deputy Vice Chancellor of a University who admitted he put Klingon down as his religion on the census - doesn't he know its all made up, there is no Spock. But that's the power of story and storytelling. And thinking about it, I haven't seen a great movie in years. I wonder why that is? I haven't even seen one I would like to buy on DVD on a passing whim. I have disagreements with others on what a good movie is, I hated Lincoln (I thought a dull stage play) but then I did watch it on the plane to L.A., and I hated Inside Llewyn Davis because the central character was completely charmless, not even a plucky loser, so I await the next recommendation with trepidation. This is what Llewyn Davis lacked - and its all over now baby blue:
