Class, Sept. 3

Yesterday in class we watched some tough clips. The one I liked in particular though, or found most interesting, was the first. These puppets were beautifully made and the artist does an amazing job with movement and the story line. But are we just looking at the basic line of the story or the whole thing? The after effect of the animals deaths.

In this short film, each main animal has a mate, they go in pairs. Then by nature and circumstance, each one looses their mate, their main friend. The one they stuck with. Now here's where I find it getting interesting.

While, yes, the animals mates died, the artist showed that they were able to move on by showing each one's main habitat they had been in the entire film completely empty. First they were together in their place, then alone, then gone.

Time moves on. We have to learn how to move past tragedy and embrace brokenness. Deal with the pain now so that we know how to deal with it or help others through it later. If we just pass it by like nothing happened, we won't be able to handle it ourselves when it matters.

Either we need to take life seriously, or truly become dull to it all. Be cause there is no way to be in the middle and still be in a right place.

Today's theme in class might have been depressing overall, but we don't need to dwell on it. Move forward. Things like what was shown happen, or happened. We can't change it. So flow with it. Learn from life.

In another video ( http://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=up56e37h#/watch?v=P7pQG5Iv784&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP7pQG5Iv784 ) what I think is shown is that this man sees right from the beginning that he's done something wrong. And nearing the end, just like in the story where the boy took baptism so seriously that he ended up drowning himself, the man in the video is seen trying to drown out the sin by taking more drink from the communion cup than needed.

And even to the end, we can tell he knows he has sinned. He mentions how he can hear them screaming. Soon after, his wife tells him to go to bed and be quiet. I personally think this is a way of showing how some people have grown so accustomed to sin that they try to just shut us up and push us to become used to it as well. That might not have been the view the original director had in mind, but I still thought it was interesting.