Rewatched a favorite film, THE HOURS, this morning. First rate, top to bottom. Three remarkable performances. Brilliant editing. Perfect music. Great script from the novel. Love this film.
It always reminds me of a couplet by Cummings: the most who die, the more we live.
Death is so essential in defining Life: and this culture's removal of focus on this reduces the experience of living. We should celebrate Death as the context of our deepest moments of living. Our old folks, people like myself, are a valuable asset to do this but instead we warehouse and ignore the elderly, who become irrelevant in the culture. A terrible loss.
This film sings these themes.
It always reminds me of a couplet by Cummings: the most who die, the more we live.
Death is so essential in defining Life: and this culture's removal of focus on this reduces the experience of living. We should celebrate Death as the context of our deepest moments of living. Our old folks, people like myself, are a valuable asset to do this but instead we warehouse and ignore the elderly, who become irrelevant in the culture. A terrible loss.
This film sings these themes.
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