under skyline and sunshine: January 2007

caroline herring

her website.
listen to her stuff. texas two step is my current fave.

blood diamond.

i'm a very visual girl. and this movie was hard on me. really really hard. but it was also phenomenal. incredibly shot, incredibly acted ... and incredibly convicting? maybe. maybe that's not quite the right word. one hates to appeal to merely the emotions; and my fear of being perceived as dramatic instead of as appropriately responding to such a film is in the back of my mind. but my sister actually had to physically lift me out of my chair so the rest of the people in our aisle could get out of their seats. she sat me by a sign for ratatouille and went to get some paper towels. i waited with amy, who reacts as i do during emotional situations that she doesn't quite get, and made jokes about how she really didn't think that he wouldn't have made it the last twenty yards to the plane. it helped in the moment. but the film still made its point. i sat for awhile. i talked about other things for awhile. i went home, washed my hair and went out to get a beer as i had planned. but i still went to sleep with the dull headache of having so fiercely sobbed. by today, i'm a little better. there's people i would recommend see it. there's other people i think should not. it depends on how you must learn. how you must be informed. i'd heard about this problem before. and it made me think then. sort of. but ... reading about it isn't experiencing it. and neither is sitting in a comfortable theater and proceeding with your life afterwards. but it's closer.

while the entire concept of the movie was hard/convicting/still-can't-think-of-the-right-word for me. the relationship between solomon and dia was within itself even more so. it was like me and Jesus. painfully like me and Jesus. "find me in the valley and remind me of my name."

point being: it changed things for me.
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