I've been on a movie-watching binge lately because I'm anxious about a medical procedure scheduled for Thursday and have been trying to stay out of myself, or at least to worry less. One of Revolutionary Road's main characters, played by Kate Winslet, states at one point, "No one forgets the truth, they just get better at lying," and I added to that "or remaining silent." This film's young couple fill in some emotional gaps in my understanding my own parents and their peers, who were around their age at that time in history (the 50s and 60s), and they also help me see how easy it is for people to defer their own dreams to societal norms.
How many times have I wondered the same thing----Who made that "rule" and why should it be followed?
The themes running through this film also segue nicely (it's not that I think you don't know this word, I did this because I hate the way this word looks---so unlike its pronunciation) with a book I just finished reading, The Other, by David Guterson----and the themes I've been intent on exploring in my own life: what it means to "fit in" to our culture versus critically standing outside of it, questioning the reality that so many seem to accept without bother; why some of us are disturbed to the extent of our sanity being questioned while others are able to be quite happy and maintain what some describe as "successful lives"; how those considered "insane" are often the most sane and perceptive.
Coincidences can take on more meaning than we intend sometimes and either become elating synchronicities or disturbing potentialities, which only time can tell. In my blog-browsing, I recently came across a photograph of a woman naked from the waist up, arms raised in exhaltation to an open sky, one breast removed.
Synchronicities are seen in hindsight.
