The Sunshine Boy (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Iceland 2009)
There are some films that have the power to change the world, and I hope this one actually proves it.
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson directs this documentary about one woman’s journey to try and understand her autistic son’s mind. In adopting the voice of one [...]
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The Sunshine Boy
Posted in Awareness, Cinema, Responsibility, tagged challenging norms, Saturn-Uranus opposition on 17 September 2009 | 5 Comments »
I/Thou/We/They
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Cinema, Ego, Suffering on 13 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness
— Annie Savoy (played by Susan Sarandon), Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)
Aural textures
Posted in Aversion, Cinema, Thinking, tagged aura on 9 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
Is it possible for auras to have textures? Words use to describe auras tend to be visual: clear, bright, dark, murky, and so on; sometimes even in colours. Is it possible to come into contact with someone whose aura feels slimey? Where coming into contact with them makes you feel the need to scrub it [...]
How you know Pluto is really in Capricorn now
Posted in Astrology, Cinema on 13 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
The opening film at this year’s Cannes film festival stars a 78-year- old animated retiree who decides to go on a balloon adventure. An unprecedented choice of subject and medium.
If you build it, they will come
Posted in Astrology, Cinema, Meditation, Practice on 17 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nearly 20 years after its release, the signature phrase from Field of Dreams (1989) has entered the popular consciousness. Its message of hope and optimism may seem rather naive, or relevant (depending on one’s inclination), given the madness that we seem to be embroiled in today.
Late to bed and later to rise
Posted in Cinema on 11 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
I recently discovered something called the B-Society, and no, for once, it is not something from a Japanese manga series (that would be B Complex, B Reaction, B Shock ).
Remembrance of film(s) past
Posted in Cinema, Poetry on 7 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To continue with the Proustian reference from the last post, I’ve had a wonderful revisiting of a film by Shunji Iwai called Love Letter (1995). Can’t believe it’s been 12 years since I last saw it. But as they say in Zen, time is an illusion, n’est-ce pas?
