(I am reposting this here. I wrote this blog entry on Myspace on August 26th. Each time I read it, I am empowered. )
Have you ever watched a movie that explained clearly something to you about your life? That chronicled the flow and feelings of your past and future, without reenacting the events.
The movie was Australian. It won the 1985 Australian Academy Award for Best Picture. I grabbed it off of the shelf at the library because I liked the name and the movie description intrigued me. Its called Bliss.
This movie was made in 1985. I was five years old then, but as I watched it today, it was a profound commentary on my past and present (and probably future) without actually reenacting anything I have lived through or likely will live through. It was poetic, magical, grotesque, comical, and profound. It mixed modern day decay with the possibility for wholesome existence. The tone, style and flow of the film felt like my own. Elements of the movie were in fact part of my personal history: advertising, being out of touch with nature, a huge life change, and the pursuit of a wholesome way of living. But it exaggerated life. It added magical elements to reality. It dealt with the way of living and dying.
It reminded me why love storytelling in art; why people tell stories, why my passion is to tell stories with theatre, and why I create what I do. Why my favorite book is 100 years of solitude and like water for chocolate. It is something that resonates throughout my body. Reality heightened.
It reminded me of why I attempt to transcend modern existence with art, what I love about life and why I wish to perform and to create onstage that love in a production. Magic. Magical realism. It made me realize the magic in life and the magic that I have in me to create with. I want to pursue the elevation of life to a heightened level. Not just in theatre but in everyday living. Living life with the fact that magic is in everything. It is in as much as you believe it can be in. Not just in a theatre where you suspend your disbelief or at the fingertips of a magician who is palming a coin.but that it actually exists. Embracing, some would see this as naivety, as a principle and the foundation of this world that the unexplained, surreal, and magical happens.
I believe in fate and its variableness. I believe that the environment guides you towards your intended path and that you will never know what that path is. And that not knowing is a wonderful and nourishing thing. I believe that if you close your eyes and imagine your are flying, if you really free your imagination and feel the wind, smell the air, feel the air pressure change and hear the earth below.then your really are flying even if someone watching you says that you are just sitting with your eyes closed. I believe there are separate dimensions and worlds within every person. And that death is just a physical removal from this world. You can come back; you just arent seen and viewed by othersunless they close their eyes.
The world we live in, this modern day world that we pollute, we cultivate, we decay, we purify, is beautiful. It is astoundingly complex and unique. There is so much of it, so many inhabitants on it. I love it. All of the foods, flowers, people, valleys, mountains, rivers, oceans, plants..its breathtaking and unbelievable. But I believe that it is only part of our existence. That other part is behind our eyelids and in our imaginations. And that world is just as complex and wonderful.
Marvelous. Just marvelous. This is great. I want to share it and be in it.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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