Some Thoughts On The Common Toad | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay | dG1fd0NneVJOSkxGdnc

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00:00At this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic

00:10towards the end of Lent. His movements are languid but purposeful, his body is shrunken,

00:16and by contrast his eyes look abnormally large. This allows one to notice, what one might

00:23not at another time, that a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature.

00:30It is like gold, or more exactly it is like the golden coloured semi-precious stone

00:35which one sometimes sees in signet rings, and which I think is called a chrysoberyl.