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Little Women 2019: A Short Review

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Symbol Reader

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, experienced both enchantment and wretched poverty in her early years. Her father was an intellectual and member of the Transcendentalist movement, which meant that little Louisa met Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo … Continue reading →

Posted in The Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Uncategorized | Tagged cinema, classicism, feminism, film, Greta Gerwig, literature, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, movie, narrative, narrator, patriarchy, postmodernism, review, storytelling, suffrage | 8 Comments

Moments experienced intensely: photography of Sebastião Salgado

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Symbol Reader

“All my photos correspond to moments that I have experienced intensely.” Sebastião Salgado, “From my Land to the Planet,” Kindle edition The movie Salt of the Earth (2015) directed by Wim Wenders and dedicated to the life and work of … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Sebastião Salgado | Tagged archetypes, art, black and white, deforestation, depth psychology, documentary, earth, exhibition, From my Land to the Planet, Genesis, Instituto Terra, movie, photography, planet, Salt of the Earth, Sebastião Salgado, symbolism, symbols, te environment, the Nenets, Wim Wenders | 13 Comments

Roma: Movie of the Year

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Symbol Reader

The movie Roma is a beautiful hymn to women. It tells the story of Cleo, an indigenous (Mixtec) woman who works as a maid to an upper-middle-class Mexican family. She is wonderfully portrayed by Yalitza Aparicio, who had never acted … Continue reading →

Posted in Movie Review | Tagged Alfonso Cuaron, anima mundi, archetypes, domestic work, film, goddess, Hestia, housework, humility, James Hillman, Mixtec, movie, Power, review, Roma, servant, service, serving, Soul, symbolism, symbols, water, woman, women | 21 Comments

Unchanging Waves of Time

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Symbol Reader

The distinction between past, present and future is the most persistent illusion of all, said Einstein. From the perspective of quantum physics, the past, present and future exist simultaneously in time-space. Time is static, it is us who are flowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arrival, enso, film review, heptapods, linguistic relativity, logograms, movie, quantum physics, relativity, seven, Soul, symbolism, Time, Zen | 19 Comments

Hope, Faith and Sublime Beauty in the Clamor of Suffering: “Ida”

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Symbol Reader

Recently, the Polish movie Ida made a tremendous emotional impact on me. It is the sort of movie about which the less is known before seeing it the better, in order to approach it without any expectations. It is wonderfully … Continue reading →