I watched Whale Rider tonight, for the 3d or 4th time. I feel like every once in a while, a year or two, I come back to this movie, and it reaches out to me in a time when I am struggling. This world is so painful at times, to see all of the suffering that is happening. I feel like there is so little hope. What does it all mean? Why is there so much pain and suffering?
But this movie speaks to me, more deeply than any film I have ever seen. I don't exactly understand why. It is hauntingly beautiful. There is something about it that reflects the most beautiful aspects of our souls, that part of ourselves that is distinctly pure. It is like I sense it; somehow this film puts me in touch with that aspect of our humanity that is there within all of us that is of god.
Our world has lost the mythology of this film... There is something missing. I'm not sure I even understand what that is.
But I see it here... It is a beauty that is infinitely transcendent of our seemingly simple lives.
It is here in the life of this 12 year old girl and the power of this film.
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