McAvoy and Shyamalan
fully embrace both Dennis» disorder and the
past that splintered his mind, though I
imagine there will be plenty of people that will take issue with their take on it.
Imagining for one moment that Auty's suggestion is sound (which it probably is to a European), that a journey through the
past would enrich and inform our perspective of Pollock's Blue Poles, a painting we own but do not
fully appreciate, would it not be equally possible that an analysis of the present, and what has come since Blue Poles, could also inform and enlighten us as to some of its remarkable achievements and deficiencies.