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Love that analysis. Reminds me of some experiences on drugs where, if you empty your mind tabula rasa, movies look like compressed guides to emotions and relating in society. Hard to see normally because of how much experience and context we bring in.

There are also different lenses you can watch through.

The typical one is immersion - keeping track of the characters, feeling the tension as it ratchets up and down.

The two others I like are background - keeping track of the scenery as if it's a character, reading lighting and detail as its moods.

And naive sequential - treating each shot as if its a direct reply to the previous one.

I wouldn't have thought that either the Tractatus or westerns have much to do with ethics but philosophy can make some strange connections and that book does sound interesting.

Interesting, I will check out that biography for sure.