I really enjoyed this. The interesting thing is both views have validity. We are called to love goodness, love our fellow beings, and make the best with what we have. On the other hand, the path of spiritual evolution demands that we wear out desires till we are ready to move on, to transcend desire. This is a bit like a conversation between Jesus and Buddha. Enjoy! This is from a review by Julian Left: The duality of belief, as a general term, is analyzed completely in this great approach of the Cormac McCarthy novel in which the two main protagonists, named simply Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) are debating over a serious and dangerous issue. White tried to jump in front of a train and Black came and saved his ass. He carries him in his apartment and tries to put some sense into this White dude. Right? Not really. The movie also promotes religion and is an ongoing boredom that I completely despise. RIght? Not really again. This has a greater meaning than just that. We live in a world filled with pathetic lies, corny truths, raised flags over white buildings and big letters over or on the dark ones. We live in a world where prostitution is legalized even in the cultural state of the society. We live in a world where rejection, where pain, where slavery and failure are common attraction to the atrocious tourists. We are hoping to free the world from the hands of the manipulators and selfish dictators, we organize revolutions, we fight for freedom but in the end we all get trapped in the same positions as we were before. This is what this movie is about. Its about the ongoing fight carried to win our faith back. Faith, science, culture, logic, mathematics, metaphors, feelings, achievements... They are all the same. They are contents, ingredients and thoughts that the humankind must have in order to survive the greatest threat of them all. The threat which is not the monetary system, the threat which is not the harsh reality, the threat which is not the solely figurative place of the man in the world, but the threat that is represented in the lack of faith in ourselves. We are our own guides because we rule this world. This is why this movie has captured my attention completely. Its not a masterpiece, its not a grand scale picture, its not a studio banking option, its not even part of the best films in the last years but... at the same time... its simply great. I loved it because it really balances amazingly well the truth revealed along the film with the denouement. They are identical as both form and content.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:41:14 +0000