A Matter of Life and Death [1946]

1. He sheds his clothes as he walks along the beach.
2. The assembled files on every human being who’s ever lived resemble a vast microchip.
3. “The rights of the uncommon man must always be respected.”

To experience this film is to be reminded that the vast majority of today’s American studio output suffers from a severe paucity of imagination, ingenuity, and ambition.