This movie was heralded by a music score with siren-like urgently persistent horn. This was a high tech sci-fi movie that spoke issues of war, displaced persons, bloodlines, leadership requiring strength of mind and body and the futuristic war concept of immortality shields to protect to leaders from alien attack and wearing of oxygen therapy nasal tubes on the planet of Arrakis. T’was a tear jerker but showed the protagonist (Timothée Chalamet) excelling in finding safe ground and in so doing finding his love interest (Zendaya) who was a reflective and strong personality and whom he had vivid dreams of the future. The movie however was quite bloodthirsty & violent and had a growing sense of fear. The couple of focus (Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya) were nonchalant characters under pressure which was beguiling and a redeeming feature.
Author: clairemobrien
Stolen
Sydney Theatre Company performance about the stolen generation that I saw a week ago. It was really challenging to listen to the anguish expressed while seated and silent, in 2D. The voice expressed was strong and vibrant. It was great to witness the hope in the eyes of the audience as they filed out of the theatre afterwards. The Aboriginal characters on stage projected poignantly, as though their real existence was such. They shaped the issues of truth, transparency and strength of parenthood translated in our Australian history, emphasised by Rudd’s words in a recording played out loud recognising the needs of the stolen generation in political circles.
&Juliet
Great musical theatre, about Juliet not fretting when Romeo apparently dies but buoyed up by her friends and nurse’s goading she gains confidence, dates and a new lease on life! Well a happy ending after about 30 pop songs sung thanks to ‘Anne & William Shakespeare’.
https://www.sydneylyric.com.au/and-juliet/
Awareness (a reflection)
Time – seconds minutes years I ponder daily
With each meditation and prayer I feel one with time, and better in my grasp of acting in the moment.
One with God.
And if and when I feel bursts of surprise about the way things pan out I have God there too.
The warmth of God’s love i intend to be in my life as I wear a universal God’s heart on my sleeve.
The intermediary
Actualising creative approaches to my day is God centred too, seeing needs where I ought.
That I have hope for the future and becoming.
To connect to this becoming by selecting books combining intellectualism with stirring the soul with difference.
That I can use my platform to speak out for others and choosing my moment for coalescing with others about moments when I feel at one with creation, inspired and recognising the need for peace, buoyancy and 5 hugs a day!
Hello Refugees
Refuge for refugees
I attended a Christian/Catholic group discussion a few Thursday nights ago about empathy toward refugees and creating room for welcoming those in need. It included listening to a song by John Legend & Sara Bareilles. It was insightful.
‘Becoming a Synodal People’
The event this week at my church was a panel of 4 people discussing the future of women leadership in the Catholic Church. The discussion was led by Geraldine Doogue and was live streamed. I attended and it was a lively thought provoking discussion.
The Heron & The Boy
For me, the cartoon movie has a heron who enables the boy to enter other realms and with the heron he travels to the place of a god- like leader where he has a little insight into the leader’s ulterior motives and I think avoids being trapped in a negative leadership system. The heron represents positive and negative influences and assists upon a journey of choices to comment as needed on how it appears from a more worldly perspective.
Apart from having 2x Japanese Exchange students stay at our place in my youth, I worked briefly for a sushi bar. This gave my a little chink of light into a Japanese side of life, as the cartoon does too.
Wendy Harmer, ABC Comedian extraordinaire
Once my sister and I had the pleasure of meeting Wendy Harmer in person when we were audience for the ABC Radio production of Thank God It’s Friday! In this video she speaks of the quirks of being an author of ‘Lies My Mirror Told Me’.
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ By Trent Dalton
Barbie (2023)
The Movie
Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling are far from vainglorious as Barbie & Ken in recent movie Barbie. I admit I managed to watch 1/2 of it on video (due to not having hired it myself). They outline a Mattel endorsed lifestyle that is walking a tightrope and is destined to change due to Barbie’s discovering existencey of a real life beyond the materialistic confines of the present known doll’s life. The elements of ’real life’ suggest danger and disarray compared with the predictability of a doll’s life. It provokes discussion of thé clash between dolls’s or their imagined ‘perfect’ lifestyles and reallife and the problems each situation brings mechanistically.