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The Golden Ass Lucy

Bresson film also has a sense of the saintliness of the donkey too. He's incorporated into religious ritual. The Golden Ass Lucy, now in this story this is a man who's been turned into a donkey. So he isn't a donkey. In a donkey he thinks like a human. That's the whole point. And so a film that allows us to fully feel asks more interesting philosophical questions about our difference from other kinds of animals and what that difference entails.

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