Sunday, September 18, 2005

I just watched perhaps the best movie I have ever seen; and it was not because it had any great depth of thought, nor any tragedy, no shocking heroism, no epic proportions and no villains; in fact, the plot was quite simple and predictable, and the story barely even cleared the realm of the most normal and uneventful of lives. One could easily call it childish. Yet with utter mastery and wonderful subtlety, it speaks gently of the things which are truly most important. Those seemingly little things which are the hardest to master, the easiest to forget; those which when ignored can topple kingdoms and drag souls to Hell. It is a movie of details---one must see beyond this children's story, into the characters and their motivations, into the lessons learned from simply living out their minutes and hours, not for themselves alone, not for personal gain, not in depression and dissastisfaction...
Reserve judgment until you see it yourself---you may not agree. It's beauty is in it's great simplicity; for the truths unfolded are as simple as the rest of the film, but though readily acknowledged by nearly everyone, you who really lives them?

Watch it

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