i saw "high art" on television tonight. i think that the first time i saw it was on television last year. i'm not quite sure what it is, but there's something about the film that i really like. the more i watch it, the more i think about it, the more i like it. it draws you in. i think it was the performance of the actors. it did not feel like lines rehearsed and acted, but more like the viewer is peering into lives of real people. there were some moments in the film where it was dangerously close to feeling like a film. i felt that these moments were scenes that i would have cut, that they were too long and these extended moments were thrown in to keep the audience interested by using tired crutches such sex and drugs; but then something would happen in the film and i understood why it was there. the progression of the scenes were quite intentional. it was the acting within these progressions where the realism was at its highest.