The Golden Age
3-19-06 The Golden Age
This is The Golden Age. It is not bound to past civilizations or cultures or regions. But it is an eternal state of mind where Radiance Harmony & Wholeness rule. Watching the movie "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe reminds one of the Central place of Beauty & Truth in the universe. There is one satisfying lover's kiss in this movie between Connie Nielsen & Russell Crowe. This is one true love kiss that holds the whole movie together. It takes place in Russell Crowe's jail cell where he is being held prisoner by the psychotic Roman Emperor & his former beloved Nielsen has sneaked in to visit him. "I have felt Alone all my life---except with you" she tells Russell Crowe. And these words here on this white page cannot exude the potency they contain coming from the lips of Connie Nielsen on the screen in that momentary cave of intimacy in the jail. They are omnipotent words. They tell The Story of Love for every day and every century from the beginning of recorded history to the very present instance. True Love almost never happens. Look about you. This movie is about the historical reality of man and woman's sojourn upon the earth-----the history of the human race. It's gut-check time for Russell Crowe in The Roman Empire 2,000 years ago and Maximilius (Mr. Crowe) chooses the path of The Hero. Or maybe it is more correct to say the path of Courage attracts Russell Crowe to be its shining Warrior Prince for The Good The True & The Beautiful. Watch this movie and you will feel (whether you are a woman or a man) that tremendous heroic struggle taking place inside your psyche. I do not care what you do in life. You may be a clerk in a store or a mail carrier or a priest or professor or actor or author or homemaker or an attorney or a senator. But one thing is certain: every day we make choices that cause us to walk one path or a different one. The movie "Gladiator" shines the light on the heroic possibilities of human being existing in an alien world of rampant greed and untempered lust & psychotic hatefulness. This is an effective movie. It strikes at the heart of the human predicament: what it means to be born on earth and to live among men & women & children in a world of madness governed for the most part by unconscionable devils. Out of this hell director Ridley Scott has fashioned a lucid & painful & glorious parable of illumination. Man and woman can only redeem themselves by following the heroic code thrust upon them by themselves. There is no other truly human course of action possible other than rank subservience and a whole life of relentless cowardice and betrayals. Amen, Ridley Scott---Amen, & Good Night.
RLG copyright 2006
This is The Golden Age. It is not bound to past civilizations or cultures or regions. But it is an eternal state of mind where Radiance Harmony & Wholeness rule. Watching the movie "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe reminds one of the Central place of Beauty & Truth in the universe. There is one satisfying lover's kiss in this movie between Connie Nielsen & Russell Crowe. This is one true love kiss that holds the whole movie together. It takes place in Russell Crowe's jail cell where he is being held prisoner by the psychotic Roman Emperor & his former beloved Nielsen has sneaked in to visit him. "I have felt Alone all my life---except with you" she tells Russell Crowe. And these words here on this white page cannot exude the potency they contain coming from the lips of Connie Nielsen on the screen in that momentary cave of intimacy in the jail. They are omnipotent words. They tell The Story of Love for every day and every century from the beginning of recorded history to the very present instance. True Love almost never happens. Look about you. This movie is about the historical reality of man and woman's sojourn upon the earth-----the history of the human race. It's gut-check time for Russell Crowe in The Roman Empire 2,000 years ago and Maximilius (Mr. Crowe) chooses the path of The Hero. Or maybe it is more correct to say the path of Courage attracts Russell Crowe to be its shining Warrior Prince for The Good The True & The Beautiful. Watch this movie and you will feel (whether you are a woman or a man) that tremendous heroic struggle taking place inside your psyche. I do not care what you do in life. You may be a clerk in a store or a mail carrier or a priest or professor or actor or author or homemaker or an attorney or a senator. But one thing is certain: every day we make choices that cause us to walk one path or a different one. The movie "Gladiator" shines the light on the heroic possibilities of human being existing in an alien world of rampant greed and untempered lust & psychotic hatefulness. This is an effective movie. It strikes at the heart of the human predicament: what it means to be born on earth and to live among men & women & children in a world of madness governed for the most part by unconscionable devils. Out of this hell director Ridley Scott has fashioned a lucid & painful & glorious parable of illumination. Man and woman can only redeem themselves by following the heroic code thrust upon them by themselves. There is no other truly human course of action possible other than rank subservience and a whole life of relentless cowardice and betrayals. Amen, Ridley Scott---Amen, & Good Night.
RLG copyright 2006
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