If you are one who believes true love is eternal and internal - as I sure do - then any time a work of beauty and art that comes forth embracing this true romantic concept is a must go see. A must embrace. A must must must.
"Fate's Shadow: The Full Story" does this and does this well. It makes you believe again, even if it is not always happily ever after. A magnificent work.
In the "real world," the power of love can strengthen fortitude, soften the soul, make the mind mush, and provide the nicest of cold water splash of shock and mirth. That script changes for each person, each week of a romance and, perhaps, each decade of a life. Oh, then when we see this vivid, stellar unique connection between two people occur in multiple time era and multiple bodies, then we know we are seeing the truest of true love.
It does happen in real life (ever hear of deja vu?). Michelle Arthur brings it home in the "reel world." She conceived, created, crafted, counseled and conjured this trip into our far-off corners of the romantic heart. It has been wonderfully presented. It teases and tempts the mind and heart - touching on those elusive cosmic points of "what if" and "if your future self could tell you past self something" and maybe (I think yes) she gives us a film version of a time machine.
Art is to create work to stir thought and motions and I would add to think and ponder, and even educate. Educate not in the formal schooling way but in the manner of enlightenment, of understanding one's self, and see the next board, the board at the horizon, in its wholeness. Then we know what steps to take. Then we know what we know.
"Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story" is rich in reveal, deep in discovery, clever in communicating. A balance between visual, emotional, presumed and harsh reality beams create a sharpness and a key to the vulnerable reality that women have suffered abuse through eons in the supposed name of love, courtship and society's gender insistent rules.
While revenge may be a dish best served cold, correcting this un-tasty menu of treatment is what needs to be done. "Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story" gives us a perfect course on how to do that.
