We were sitting in a kitchen and talking about it, and it was fascinating that something so banal could have such a huge emotional trigger to anybody else.
But what we see through Denethor is that it's this kind of willful ignorance, this banal denial of hope and of what it demands of us that is the truly irrational stance.
In the little prejudices, the small grievances and all the other minor forms of interference that cloud our perception, and diminish the humanity of others in subtle, banal ways.