In the movie Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Natalie Portman’s character Mahoney accuses Jason Bateman’s character of being a “just guy”.
“I knew it as soon as I saw that suit… You’re a just guy. A guy just like you, same hair, same suit, same shoes. Walks around, no matter what, he thinks ‘It's just a store, it's just a bench, it's just a tree. It's just what it is, nothing more!’
Mahoney is pointing out that when you reduce things to the sum of their parts, when you stop wondering what they might be, you shut off your imagination. When you are open to the idea that things are more than they appear, you might just see their magic.
For the transcript: Mysterious and Puzzling A Beautiful Thought
