robindecker

... other ones being "Shawshank redemption" , "Groundhog day", "midnight run", "ikiru" , "departures", "Being there" or "lilies of the field".

Although not all put in a religious setting, all those movies wrestle with the ground for a good life, in a world where "religious dogmatism" does not hod up, and/ or where the hero, initially on a trajectory ridden by self interest, reconstructs his identity along the lines of the "Christ archetype" (Taken here in an inter-faith denomination).

This includes sacrificing himself out of compassion for the other, taking responsibility for shortcomings that are not his own, and acting truthfully, in alliance with his emotion and conscience. It should be added that the particularity of this sacrifice is that it is both non-violent and life affirming.

The "Givedness of life" is the cathartic moment for the Hero in "Maktub". Grasping his newly discovered aliveness, he is able to reach out, open his hand, and bring about life, in the lives of others.

He is not the biological father, but the one through which fatherhood becomes possible. "He is not god", as he says himself. Still he will have been the very condition for generating Life in another beings, and redeeming the life, that here exists.

The oldest saying of Western Civilisation, states that "things render justice (dike) to each other, and pay penalty to each other (tisis) for their injustice (adikia) according to the ordinance of time" (Anaximander 610- 546 B.C.).

C.G.Jung (1875-1961): Persona Here "Frederick Chilton as archetype of "subjective cover-up" untruthfulness, in-authenticity.

Hanibal: Figure of "Dike": Truth maker Truth here conceived as the ability to reveal one's hidden agenda, to come forth in truthfulness, the ability to carry one's lamb, one's innocence (christian figure).

Hannibal eating the tongues: The hypothesized inability of the person, after a certain state, after having hidden fully behind it's persona, to speak truthfully and in resonance with a christian, lamb-like, shadow integrated voice.

Our innocence is the heaviest burden to carry.

Gold is a beautiful, intricate, sound movie. A movie that just depicts us humans, in our epic quest, without any concessions. Driven by some ungraspable idea, we need groups, leadership, moral standards, intimacy and love. Not all of us will stay, at least, not to the end of the movie, but though, the movie will go on somewhere else. A great canvas of WE as WE ARE. And then still willing to strive and look forward, still in the need to move ahead. Thus the depiction is better than the feeling you will get at the end of the movie.

This might be because, we, as a species, are made to believe and hope.

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