Watch This and Thank Me in the Morning
Crazy week coming? Forearm with this great restorative.
Babette’s Feast popped into my head yesterday and I’ll take it as divine inspiration. You should too.
It is in my view a perfect movie. No review or synopsis can do it justice. Those professional critiquers who’ve so overused words like luminous and sublime, they’ve washed out all of the meaning.
The film’s not so old, but it’s astonishing how far already we’ve come from telling good stories that have some enduring meaning, using actors who have real faces, and being able simultaneously to gently mock the foolishnesses of dogma in lieu of living life while celebrating the clarity of a soul undiminished in the aftermath of the worst of horrors.
Note: Here’s useful information on how to access several pretty good catalogues of films and TV shows available for streaming via your local library.
"Old wrongs are forgiven, ancient loves are rekindled and a mystical redemption of the human spirit settles over the table." ?? 😉🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette%27s_Feast
But certainly a great deal of problematic polarization, largely due to some rather "obstinate" -- not to say, "pigheaded" -- adherence to untenable dogma. Like, for example, an insistence that "sex is immutable 🙄", and that "sex" and "gender" are synonymous ... 😉🙂
But lots of scope for some "mystical redemption". Moot whether Trump will help to precipitate that -- even if inadvertently -- or to merely deepen the hole we have dug for ourselves.