I know most of this stuff on this blog is a wonderful ramble of delicate nonsense. I know it. Every once inawhile, I like to act as a clearing house for the arcane, the lost, or gems hidden to and fro around these e-streams. This is one… it caught me at the right time, and it impacted me deeply.
It’s based off of Fritjof Capra’s “Turning Point” that is, basically, about the coming fall of Western Civilization… and whether we really want to avoid it. It isn’t that cynical… it talks about putting new systems in place to help understand how our perspective is ancient, and we need to develop new attitudes to stave off our current social, political, and economic problems as they relate to humans and the environment.
The film is an interpretation of the work that has a Poet in mid-life crisis (John Heard), a defeated & tired Politician (Sam Watterson), and an environmentally passionate Physicist (Liv Ullman) conversing about a wide range of thoughtful topics while strolling around the stunning Mont Saint Michel.
It’s an amazing film, if not slow and overly philisophical. That might not be a good thing, and I am quite confident it doesn’t find meaning in it’s languished pontificating. I think the meaning is really what you take from it… and if you find any new lessons or thoughts as you walk away from it.
Do you have an hour and fifty one minutes and fifty three seconds? Don’t expect too much… but let your brain melt into everything it delves into.
So without further ado, and yay technology…. hooray for rights not being picked up, or whatever.
Mindwalk.
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