Lost in Translation

Okay, since I am a novice at this, I'm going to take it easy on my first posting. I'm going to talk about a movie. Yesterday I watched Lost in Translation. A very relaxed film, not one of the action-packed, hero-kicks-ass-and-gets-the-girl or the slapstick humour kinda movies... more like a look at the way different people experience a different culture. Also, it's not a spoonfeeding movie - you're not being told what to think, or how to feel. I liked that. You learn alot about yourself and human nature by what you read into people's behaviour. What's also great in the movie is the way the female protagonist (Charlotte) just walks around perceiving, taking things in, not acting, just seeing, hearing and who knows what she's thinking. She gets upset about her marriage - she loves her husband, nothing wrong with him, it's just that to some extent I think he does not share her curiosity about the world, her placidness, her quiet hunger to experience and do things. She doesn't know what she wants to be because she wants to be everything. She's quietly calling out, screaming. She parties, she meets strange people, and it's great, she's not afraid - or if she is, she takes comfort in her own ability to deal with anything. Because if she has to, she will.

I think human beings are incredible, if we open ourselves up. Everything else in the world is separate - plants & animals, the soil, mountains & seas - they all co-exist and interact, but they're separate. no understanding, limited awareness. People now, we are everything - or can be. We climb the mountains, we sail, swim or dive the seas; we not only eat the plants, we grow them; we are aware of the animals and make a conscious decision whether to kill, eat, spare, nurse, tame or confine them. And eachother. Moreover, with a bit of insight (aka. second thoughts) we know why we do these things. We integrate all our knowledge or experience into reasoning, decisions and opinions, we bring everything together - sounds, sights & sensations, and merge them into a whole called thought, thought and feeling. Now bear with me, cause this may seem over the top, but then, b.m.o. third thoughts we are able to distinguish between thought and feeling, to uncouple them, link them, or decide how much we will allow them to influence eachother.

This does not mean we are all powerful, or know everything - it's just our duty to be the merger between existence and experience, between awareness and caring, between seeing, hearing and believing. It's our duty to know what we don't know.

Okay, so maybe I did go wild a bit. Rest assured it won't all be this heavy - lighter, more superficial stuff is in the coming. It was my first attempt.