To start getting my 20 blog post out of the way here is what I thought and took away from class on Tuesday. Professor Leeper shared the quote "A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure." (Ecclesiastes 7:1-4) and said how you are a fool to be happy all the time and I disagree. Yes, there are some sad parts to life but you have the ability to move past and still find joy. Being happy doesn't make you a fool or ignorant or anything like that it means despite knowing the bad you can still see the good in any situation. Just ask yourself this have you ever heard anyone say frustration is the best medicine NO! Laughter is the best medicine :)
I thought “Small Hands” was eerily beautiful and sad at the same time. Once that short film ended Professor Leeper asked if it provided answers. And to answer that question no, but it doesn’t need to, instead it provided (in my opinion) comfort.
I know that we said the Fridge was similar to the good samaritan story, but I don’t really see it. If I’m right and the “good samaritan” was the person looking out the window watching this I really don’t think they were all that “good” because they should have called for the fireman sooner or came out and helped in person.
Watching the German short film I was definitely confused. So after class I talked to Professor and he the man who was talking was the one looking directly at the camera in the opening scene and that everyone from the opening scene was in various other scenes (which I definitely did not notice). And he said the man was trying to get forgiveness in a way, by taking communion and he was going against a societal norm when he drank so much wine. But I found it weird in a different way, I found it weird that 1)a catholic (I assume from the church) would be sending Jews to their death when christianity came from judaism and 2)I thought he was drinking all the wine simply because he wanted to get drunk and forget what he had done.
And on that note here a pun that I hope brightens your day.
When Professor Leeper likened The Fridge to The Good Samaritan, I thought he meant that the poor, uncouth couple trying to help the boy were like the Samaritan. Or maybe the bully who came back and helped was the good Samaritan. The people ignoring their calls for help from safe inside their apartments would be more appropriately likened to the priest and the pharisee who walked by.
ReplyDeleteI initially interpreted the man in Worlds of Glory to be chugging the wine because he strongly sensed or knew his need for atonement for the things he'd done or passively allowed, but your interpretation makes just as much sense. Maybe it was some of both.