Squishing the Arts with love

I don't watch tons of documentaries, but I enjoy an occassional one if it's on a subject matter that interests me. It's because I am cultured and well-rounded, an embracer of the arts. I have to keep reminding myself of that because, when I tell people I watched a documentary on paperclips last night, they don't say those lovely things about me. In all honesty, it wasn't about paperclips; it was titled "Paperclips", and it was about a class of 8th graders in a rural town in Tennessee who attempted to collect one paperclip for each of the 6 million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. (That's 6 million paperclips for those of you who lack proper math skills.) The film follows the project from start to finish and highlights a few Holocaust survivors and tons of letters from people sending paperclips. By the end, the entire town was involved in the project. I was a blubbering mess by the film's end. What especially touched me was an interview of a Holocaust survivor whose mother and brother were killed. He said that now, with this last generation of survivors dying, it was going to be up to the history books to teach what really happened. But there is only so much one can pick up from a book. It's really something to hear a first-hand account. If you are an art embracer such as myself, pick up this documentary. It's a good story, especially for kids.