Living death

[netpositive]

I will fulfill my promise.

Avoided the madness in downtown DC tonite
by going up to the AFI in Silver Spring MD
and seeing _Casablanca_ on the big screen
instead, for the first time in many years.

Watching it after a year of taking pictures
had much the same effect as the first time
I reread _Lord of the Rings_ after studying
literary criticism. I was fascinated by the
light and shadow effects in certain scenes,
and especially how consciously Ingrid Bergman
was posed and framed in light and by shadow.

It made me want to buy a better camera.

It made me want to work for a better world.

It made me think about love, and sacrifice.

We don't receive wisdom;
we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one
can take for us or spare us.
-Marcel Proust

Comments

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it on the big screen. Must be an amazing experience.