People as characters

LongDistanceConversations

I was just listening to Ebert and Roeper's podcast, and I was led to think about flat characters. It seems that some movies portray charters in a stale and "flat' manner. And these movies are rightly criticized for doing that. But many of us, myself especially, are only concerned with the main characters in a film. Maybe that's a symptom of our self-centered nature. It may just be that we're so short-sighted that we can only focus on one person at a time. In life that person just happens to be us.