Though not an active film-adept myself I was interested, until it reminded me of a message I recently received about the problem of introducing 'French philosophy' in the English-speaking world. And thinking of Levinas, as I usually do, I suddenly thought: but he is not a French philosopher, but a European one. That is why I explicitely based my website in .eu! I did so originally because of my wish [and the necessity, I think] to promote discussion and cooperation between Levinas-readers, used to working in different European languages. But I now realise that the original impulse in this direction came from the way Levinas has been 'practicing philosophy' – writing in French as a second, or even third language that he enjoyed searching and researching for levels of meaning going deeper than in daily use.
It made me also think of his unique use of the term 'not-indifferent' for those special moments when one finds oneself being responsible for someone else. Someone who maybe once would have appeared different to me, until he or she – or that kind of person – had left me indifferent, and then… Maybe some lines, roughly copied from a late work by Paul Klee, may help to illustrate the sensations one may undergo in such a case when one spontaineously exclaims: 'Oh my goodness…!'