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There’s worse things you can do that to chase after something ineffable, and try to pursue an impossible ideal for the rest of your life.  In fact, it might be said that there are many lives that have been dedicated to these kinds of missions, like the main message of the Man of La Mancha.  The Quixotic search is something that’s been haunting us for a long, long time.  Generations before us had a sense of the absurdity of it all, and generations that follow us will no doubt think the same, and every once in awhile, someone will come along who understands that knowing the quest is bound for failure can make it even sweeter.

It’s what drove George Lucas at a young age, after all, cashing in on the myth of the Great Goddess, and personifying her in his first major success.  Young people following in the filmmakers footsteps may eventually find it necessary to take a trip to Modesto, hole up in a nice hotel, and try to find some of the things that inspired American Graffiti.  There are lots of things all over town that will speak to his own childhood and teenage memories, because it’s the town that inspired him.

It’s ironic that the town, which has become a very sweet and lively place to visit in the past couple decades, refused him the right to film his early work, which has become such an iconic piece of film art.  It’s also interesting that the blonde in the white thunderbird would always seem to fall into great misunderstandings when she speaks, but these ironies are what makes the film so true.  Chasing after the girl of your dreams is never what it seems when it’s attainable, but can only hold power when it has the capacity and necessity to continue to escape again and again.