For some reason I really love this picture, possibly even more in black and white. (Here's the original.)
In The Rearview (b&w remix)
15 responses to “In The Rearview (b&w remix)”
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I like them both for different reasons. This one is more mysterious. I love the shades of blue in other picture, but then who knows if I’m seeing what you see. The gleam is great in both. It’s a sort of promise.
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Exactly. I like the blues in the other one, too, whether or not they’re the same ones you see.
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There is a scene in ‘The Willow Tree’ where the wife watches her husband walking after her friend in the rear view window of her car. It captures the poignancy of the ‘rear view glance’
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It’s her sister, isn’t it?
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Are you using “The Willow Tree” in your class?
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I thought it was her sister but then I lent it to someone and he thought it her friend. I plan to use it at the moment. I had seen three other Mujid Mujudii films and thought this one was great. So that made it definite. Then this guy I lent it to, who teaches Islam, didn’t like it much (he rated it 5/10, though he said his wife made it a 6 or 7). This worried me a bit, in case my taste was entirely off. But it struck me as a perfect movie about ‘the fall’.
I watched The Mission yesterday and it is much better than I remembered. A good movie about vocation. -
The Willow Tree has been added to my Netflix queue at position #85. If I don’t move anything around and keep watching movies at my current rate, it will be at least two years before I see it.
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I’m curious, O Expert, as to why they didn’t like it. Was it on religious grounds, or did they not think that it portrayed muslim life well, or what?
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I really must watch “The Mission” again.
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Maclin, I see you’ve already hopped on The Turnip bandwagon!
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He didn’t like it because the protagonist is so inward looking and unappealing as a character. He said he couldn’t identify with him at all.
I see what he means entirely, but, it seems to be an entirely realistic portrayal of what being an invalid makes us like and of what being sinful makes us to be -
Well, that just seems to be a personal preference. And I think you are right about sinfulness and I believe you sad something about the Fall. His operation really is like the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
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I don’t think it will be much of a bandwagon, Louise, but I did think some of the things were funny. (She’s talking about a Facebook thing billed as the Catholic alternative to The Onion.)
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Janet: His operation really is like the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I also thought it was interesting as a slightly ‘Islamic’ take on ‘the fall’ (in which Muslims don’t believe) – in that, it’s visual.
That’s exactly what I thought, Janet. Maybe the Islamicist (who is a very nice guy) doesn’t have an eye for movies. -
Re: The Turnip. No, I don’t think it will be anything even remotely like a bandwagon, I just used the word in a very loose way. At any rate, I find it highly amusing.
btw, I am having some “brainspace.” Nick was away for four weeks in the Americas. He came back on Sunday and volunteered to look after the kids while I have a little holiday at my Mum’s (only half an hour away, but it’s a very pleasant change of pace).
Light On Dark Water 
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