“…I see you walk through…”
A poignant line from the band Crowded House. (And if anyone out there even knows that song without looking it up online, I will…congratulate you…non-verbally…using typed words.)
Why is it a good line for this particular moment?
Because I just saw a film (“San Andreas”) in which a man races against all odds to get to his loved ones. It seems the earth and the sea are against him. And he’s a dead man until he lays eyes on his loved ones again – at least that’s how he feels.
The film has relationship subtext: in this day and age, it’s about as easy to keep a relationship healthy as two people trying to survive an earthquake.
It’s about isolation. The endless tug-o-war between selfishness and serving. Between self-centered works of flesh, pride, and who-knows-what-else, and the true miracle of this world: faith and love. It’s about the deep chasms and tectonic plates that shift beneath the surface of the heart; and, if not dealt with properly, crack open and swallow us whole. Or things from far off come in when we least expect it – the tsunami that draws all seas to itself, and then steamrolls fifty billion tons of water across your back with an ironic smile and a white mist that never leaves the horizon.
Okay, maybe the movie wasn’t consciously going for all that. It just wanted stuff to go KABOOM.
But it was a surprisingly good movie. Click the link to read my full review.
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