Great movie, Turq; many thanks. You remind me of another one I liked -- of a very different flavor -- called "The Invention of Lying," which also nicely showed the relationship of Us with our I-particles, our bodymind, which believes pretty much everything we tell it "in here," and then materializes our simple ideas or "rules" or programs as our Life "out there."
What I have been calling "surrender into Reality" could just as easily be called "taking full responsibility for my own particular Reality." Life is not *a* Bitch; Life is *my* Bitch. In taking full responsibility for Her, just as She IS, as my perfect and utterly faithful other half, I surrender my heart to Her completely and adore Her madly, passionately. We cleave whole-heartedly to one another as husband and wife. My Life is my wife, is my own bodymind, as well as the movie "out there" it automatically creates or chooses from the great teeming chaos of What IS to dance out and display the choreography of my own simple thoughts. The original-series Star Trek episode "Shore Leave," written by Theodore Sturgeon, beautifully expresses this understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_Leave_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) Earth is like an amusement park which automatically materializes all of our thoughts (or "rules") for us to enjoy. But for the most part we haven't even been aware of thinking those thoughts, and so some of us have considered this a nightmarish Hell-planet... *L*L*L* --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Another "disappeared" post, thanks to the Yahoo QA staff, > or lack thereof. I'm reposting it because I'm curious if there > are other DJDM freaks on this forum, and because...well, > I never get close to 50 posts in a week these days anyway, > and it really doesn't matter to me how many of them Yahoo > eats... > > All of this talk of what is real vs. what is unreal, in > conjunction with recent talk about charisma and the sense > of I-am-RIGHTness that other people perceive and gravitate > to naturally leads me to a shameless film plug. > > It's one of my favorite movies -- easily in my Top Five -- > but I find that very few people even know it. This is, IMO, > a result of a confused and misguided publicity campaign > orchestrated by people who never "got" the movie, and thus > tried to market it as some kind of Johnny Depp youth comedy. > Turns out it IS a comedy, but at the same time very, very > serious about serious subjects such as what is reality, > what is real life vs. fantasy, and what are the only four > great questions in life**. Add to this Marlon Brando and > Faye Dunaway as Depp's costars, and you have the makings > of a major hit. Instead it sunk like a stone, and is now > held in high regard only by those who saw it for what it > was -- one of the best films ever made by a first-time > writer/director. > > The film is called "Don Juan DeMarco." If you haven't > seen it, you might enjoy it. It has the tightest script > I've ever read (even better than "American Beauty"), and > both the direction and the performances are letter-perfect. > "Perfect" is, in fact, the word that most often springs > to my mind when trying to describe it. YMMV, especially > depending on how you feel about things like love and > romance; this is arguably the most romantic film ever > made. > > The following clip shows the opening of the movie. Depp > is in his full Don Juan costume and persona: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk> > > A few minutes later in the film, Don Juan is in a mental > institution, being treated by psychiatrist Marlon Brando > to cure him of his delusion that he is Don Juan. But if > it IS a delusion, what enabled him to score so big-time > in this hotel restaurant? The magic of "Don Juan DeMarco" > is that it blurs the line between delusion and reality, > and treats them as relational, not hierarchical. > > > ** "What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is > worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer > to each is the same: only love." >
