To be clear I know next to zilch about Tupac, just stumbled across this and was zapped by the density of truth bombs in a mere four minutes

P.S. of course there are people in America renewing English right now and who have been since 1940. This movie was just a good jolt to do it and go looking for it.

But this movie did remind me that English can be renewed! With energy and wit and speed, not just with acronyms and clever names for unhealthy online behaviors. Thank you, Hepburn and Stewart and co.

Dialogue alone can be catchy like a pop song and reverberate like poetry. This script, and the way the actors savor the words or shoot them, demonstrate an understanding of the capability of language to be renewed.

This is not a call to return to good old American English from any past era.

Words are more than tools for communication. Strung together just so, as Donald Ogden Stewart has demonstrated with this script, words achieve a cumulative effect greater than their meanings.

Walking out of a theater, with this English knocking around your head like a pinball, it's hard to go back to the dull, corporate jargon of the office, or the like-like-like self-centered conversation you hear in any bar or coffee shop.

These lines come fast, almost relentlessly, at an unrealistic and thrilling clip. They remind you -- in the gut, where laughter originates -- of what language is capable.

Here are carefully chosen and arranged words matched to mouths that appreciate their potential. Here Jimmy Stewart is given the opportunity to say, sincerely, that a woman's heart is full of "hearth fires and holocausts," and Cary Grant can dryly offer greetings with "Hello, friends and enemies."

So, Dylan's kinda right, Seeger's kinda right. Everyone's motives seem fair. In other words, good movie. So many good cheekbones.

Last note is that my favorite part of Timmy's performance + the script was showing again and again that Dylan despised categorization. He couldn't consider himself a traitor to folk, because he never identified as a folk musician. He just wanted to make the best music he could.

On the other hand, Dylan's rock music is really, really good. And it's impossible to argue that great art shouldn't exist, I think.