> Experiencing art is not like being etherized for an operation. It's
> above all a physical and emotional awareness. If you're not
intelligent,
> you're not aware.

By analogy: when we interact with another person, what we're affected
by and respond to includes body language, intonation, clothing, etc,
whether or not we make conscious mental notes of these things or can
recall them afterwards.

So maybe there are (at least) two types of noticing: we can notice an
actor's gestures, or we can notice that a character seems edgy and
confused, without realising or even thinking to ask what creates this
effect.

I agree that we have everything to gain as viewers and critics by
striving to be explicitly aware of as much as possible.

JTW