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A man is crouching over a canvas. He has just begun work on his latest creation when he hesitates. It is during this hesitation that he will achieve, what all artists long for, a breakthrough. He has just dipped his brush in a can of paint when he pauses only to, after a time, notice the paint dripping off of the brush and onto the floor. He sees the pattern the dribbling paint has begun …

…and put on screen for all to look at and appreciate and question. Be it through the undressing of a man and a woman in a doorway just before they make love for the first time, to Pollock himself lying in a field staring up at the sky with nothing around him for miles on end, but nature itself. The movie is an achievement in and of itself, aside from the artwork its artist created.