Two red balls sit at different heights above glossy dark-blue floor tiles, with reflections below.

Original artwork, not a still

Del Griffith

You play with your balls a lot.

— Planes, Trains & Automobiles  ·  1987

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Del presents a personal observation with blunt familiarity. The wording draws attention to another person’s repeated physical habit rather than explaining why it matters. Its intrusive directness is the point: something that might ordinarily pass without comment is made into the whole subject of the sentence.

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