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Roger Ebert on Empathy as the Most Essential

"A Campaign for Real Movies" at Roger Ebert's Journal (May 19, 2010).

These aren’t all masterpieces, although some are, but they’re all Real Movies. None follows a familiar story arc. All involve intense involvement with their characters. All do something that is perhaps the most important thing a movie can do: They take us outside our personal box of time and space, and invite us to empathize with those of other times, places, races, creeds, classes and prospects. I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.