Can you keep a secret?

Isn't that a revealing phrase; can you keep a secret? A secret has to be kept. Left to its own devices it will escape, it'll get lose. A secret has to be actively kept. It has its own agency, and force, and that has to be counteracted. If you keep a secret and you never ever tell anyone, you lose a part of yourself.

The film Cloverfield is told entirely my handheld camera. The script and the characters have the self-awareness to call the cameraman on this irritating habit he has of filming everything. At one point, chickening out of investigating something, he says 'You go. I'll ... document it.'

And yet every time that the person holding the camera dies, another one picks it up. Despite any reservations they expressed about filming beforehand. And it's because they can't help confiding in the camera; they have to share the secret. The story, in Cloverfield, forces its protagonists to tell it, no matter how little they want to.

My sister thinks that this is too exclusive. That you need some teleologies. She means that you need some secrets. So I'll tell you some. Can you keep a secret?

I can't.