I know, of course, not to try being a moral judge of anyone. And certainly not of people from another time. I know the life in the films is contrary to the dictum ‘Alone is best’; but that is not what bothers me. After all, I have spent days at a time with other people—have even seen the same students every day for weeks. It is not the Mistake of Proximity that bothers me about those ‘families.’ I think it may be a kind of shock that the people take such risks. They seem to feel so much for one another.
