We can see the flaws too, like the failed focus - pull as Elliott's canoe drifts towards the camera, or
the visible cigarette burns at upper right (meaning this probably wasn't mastered from the negative), or the clumsy splice right through the middle of Elliott's lean and handsome face around nineteen minutes in.
It has unrepaired divots, brown scars, slick spots, damp spots, replaced cups, leaves, pebbles, worms, lumps of sand,
cigarette butts, invisible grain and — clearly
visible — the name of a high school skillfully
burned into it by vandals.