Almost Buddhist - 戲‧論

It’s been like 10 years since I last took a flight. This year I’ve, however, taken two flights already, one to Japan and one to Taiwan, places where I never thought I would want to go. Like I said, to move on forward, you got to learn to let go of things that have kept you grounded. And you got to put aside your stereotypes and biases so as to be able to see and find out more about what life has actually got for you. That’s not easy of course. It takes a lot of courage and determination, and you might have to struggle hard with your past and shadows too, but I guess one step at a time is all you need. Love is indeed a great force that drives us forward, and keeps us hopeful for a better future, a better life, a better world, even though it might probably fail and hurt us over and again. A person without love and hope is basically doomed. As a Buddhist or not, we ought to be brave and fearless to love and care as if we’ve never been hurt before, like a Bodhisattva never giving upon

★★☆☆☆ Whoa, I just figured I’ve already watched most of Darren Aronofsky’s films like ‘ The Wrestler ’, ‘ Black Swan ’, and ‘ Noah ’ before his latest ‘Mother’. Well, to me ‘The Wrestler’ is the best of all hands down. The rest all seem a bit too dark and bleak to be digested and appreciated. I had no interest checking out ‘Mother’ in the first place, but since there are pretty Lawrence and awesome Javier, and mixed critics saying you’d either love it or hate it, simple as that, so… turned out I’m one of the haters! For those who have watched ‘Mother’ but still can’t make head nor tail of it, here is mother in the film Jennifer Lawrence’s breakdown, ‘T he film is an allegory. It depicts the rape and torment of Mother Earth. I represent Mother Earth; Javier, whose character is a poet, represents a form of God, a creator; Michelle Pfeiffer is an Eve to Ed Harris's Adam, there's Cain and Abel and the setting sometimes resembles the Garden of Eden.’ Now you get it? Nope?