When we were at a farmer's market yesterday, my friend was telling me we are in the midst of 3 eclipses in a one month period. One has already happened, a lunar eclipse is happening this Wednesday night, though we won't see it here, and one will occur next week. It made sense, because I feel unsettled, and my friends seem unsettled. We forget how tied to nature we are, and that there are gravitational pulls and tides and moody weather that may disturb us. On Friday, we had a sunny warm day, but then Saturday was windy, overcast then sunny then overcast, clouds turned dark then light, and the wind was rustling everything. My response is to take extra care of myself. In the afternoon my friend came over and we had tea in the kitchen. It seemed too electric to be on the patio.
We later got in the car and went to see Terence Malick's "Tree of Life". We are both affectionados of Malick, and had been looking forward to seeing it for some time. It was astoundingly beautiful, and the acting was brilliant. The story was universal and at the same time so particular. It was set mainly in Waco, Texas in the fifties, right after World War II. I saw my family, my father especially, and the world of my brother. The jealousy of one sibling for another. The small town life, now really gone most places. How we are haunted by the dead, and how we live, in a way, outside of time. What wasn't real to us at the time it happened may become more real much later. How our view changes of events over time. How our passions are often picked up from the people around us, without understanding the transference.
People either love or hate Malick, but he's definitely got a vision, and all his movies are about this world that is mysterious and unknowable. And how we are a part of nature, not separate from it. It is a view of the earth, or even universe as one living breathing organism.
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