Nov 12, 2024
I saw a couple of movies yesterday. Libre/Freedom(2024)- a French movie and Gifted (2017), which I saw for the second time. Both were sweet nice movies. I read critiques of both movies. But they had received bad reviews also. I was getting bugged by these reviews. It seemed to me that they were lacking (the reviews). Or perhaps I did not trust them. Libre was nice. There were criticisms for not showing why the girl was with the guy. I felt I knew. I felt it was shown. I suppose subtly. She thought of him as an artist. It was love. It also felt so relevant. The idea of freedom this thief harbored. It did not feel like the glorification of robbery or crime to me. It was also a different time. It made me think about inner freedom. Who is truly free?
Gifted, also was sweet and predictable, yet when I was immersed in it, I enjoyed it. The body language of the actors. The way of being. Dealing with life. The calmness I felt, was perhaps more a Somatic experience.
I like writing about movies I see and how I see them. I was thinking about all of life as existence and then life as experience. Human life, evolution, feels like it's about experience. Ah.
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I read a line in my last book about how one becomes what one is doing rather than being themselves when they do something creative.
In the episode I saw on Christoph Neiman (Abstract-Netflix), he said something about experiencing art rather than creating art being the gateway to… made me think about what I consume… isn't consumption, when its art. I guess I am a cinephile. A label I haven't associated with in words or obviousness. But I guess I am. I am a reader, a healer, a painter, a writer, and all this. I think therefore I am-descarte or … and then… when I am doing something I am not all this. I am not how I feel on my own. I become what I am doing. What beauty!
Sun has come up and filled my space with light. It was overcast, we had gone to the terrace for some sunlight. I read a few pages. Took a little bag filled with necessities for comfort. Something I do now. Take up time, space, and effort to feel comfortable. I took shades, water, a book, a scarf, an ashtray, my smartphone, keys… haha to go to the terrace of my building. It felt like love. It was caring towards self but also making space for this. An act of rebellion. That is how I saw the movie Libre also. His idea of stealing wasn't Robin Hoodie in the manner of redistributing wealth but rather living out a life with whatever his idea of freedom was. Distributing the possibility and inspirations. The overcoming of the fear of inadequacy and being powerful, and bold… not for rebelling but rather by rebelling for beauty and freedom. The space he took up with his ideas. The resources, the time, and attention.
It feels rather relevant to the current affairs of the world. There are wars, more potential wars, and the vulnerabilities of the environment. It is a good time to experience such ideas and open up to inspiration, if at all.
