Of course. I know some MoFos, such as mack, who says she only watches any and every film once. I respect that, but to me, it makes no sense. Sometimes you're tired and miss most of the flick (without realizing it or accusing the movie itself of "putting me to sleep"). Other times, you have other people around, or are on the phone, or are on the 'puter, or are on the
fill in the blank. Other times you watch the film with your friends and/or family, and they tend to lead you to think of it a certain way which later turns out to be something resembling the power of suggestion or "mass hysteria" where you saw something which everyone else did but is basically impossible to exist in our world. Now, I'm not saying that Lynch, Cronenberg, Bergman, Fellini, Bunuel, Maddin, etal., can't produce in you images, nightmares, gibberish which won't haunt you until the day you die, I'm saying that it's up to you and not up to them, how much power they have over your own life, especially since I believe that you should have the most power, unless you're drinking absinthe and reading Poe and/or Lovecraft.