Comments on: Blue Light, Red Light: Paris, Texas and the Redemption of a Man http://thefilmtalk.com/blog/blue-light-red-light-paris-texas-from-criterion/ Tue, 22 May 2012 13:13:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Twitted by christianthesunhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/blue-light-red-light-paris-texas-from-criterion/#comment-24866 Twitted by christianthesun Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:59:49 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=6287#comment-24866 [...] This post was Twitted by christianthesun [...] [...] This post was Twitted by christianthesun [...]

]]> By: Adrian Lux – Can’t Sleep (MaT’ SalvaPoya recreates Schossow remix)http://thefilmtalk.com/blog/blue-light-red-light-paris-texas-from-criterion/#comment-3974 Adrian Lux – Can’t Sleep (MaT’ SalvaPoya recreates Schossow remix) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:55:20 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=6287#comment-3974 [...] The Film Talk » Blue Light, Red Light: Paris, Texas and the … [...] [...] The Film Talk » Blue Light, Red Light: Paris, Texas and the … [...]

]]> By: Kyle Meyershttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/blue-light-red-light-paris-texas-from-criterion/#comment-3973 Kyle Meyers Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:31:40 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=6287#comment-3973 I watched this film last night. I had been avoiding your article here, until i was able to see it. Enjoyed it, and like you, I really dig the themes of redemption, reconciliation, and responsibility. and your tid-bit about Merton and the Desert was enlightening. thank you for incorporating that.<br><br>i also just watched Rashomon for the second or third time, but it felt like a first. i had never before been so struck by the final scene with the infant, which carries a significant amount of symbolic weight. So much so, that i am not sure that kurosawa was making a film about the relativity of truth (that is so often written about), but that he was actually making a film about an ultimate truth, in regards to our response to our broken, dishonest, and violent nature. so maybe he was suggesting, that by recognizing our broken nature and taking responsibility for it through an opportunity to reconcile broken relationships (taking in an orphan, re-unifying mother and child, frogs falling from the sky, hari and kris, etc) that there might be hope for redemption? - and if that were true, maybe "Truth" actually does exist, despite are incapability to be totally honest with ourselves? ...to which i strongly feel, was the actual "point" of Rashomon, and seems to be a substantial truth of Paris, Texas as well.<br><br>sorry about ranting on about a whole other film - hope it made sense.<br><br>Paris, Texas was part of a lenton film series i am involved in (began a week before Ash Wednesday, in preparation of lent). we used your essay here to help process the film. so again, thanks.<br><br><a href="http://www.theauteurs.com/lists/4058" rel="nofollow">http://www.theauteurs.com/lists/4058</a> I watched this film last night. I had been avoiding your article here, until i was able to see it. Enjoyed it, and like you, I really dig the themes of redemption, reconciliation, and responsibility. and your tid-bit about Merton and the Desert was enlightening. thank you for incorporating that.

i also just watched Rashomon for the second or third time, but it felt like a first. i had never before been so struck by the final scene with the infant, which carries a significant amount of symbolic weight. So much so, that i am not sure that kurosawa was making a film about the relativity of truth (that is so often written about), but that he was actually making a film about an ultimate truth, in regards to our response to our broken, dishonest, and violent nature. so maybe he was suggesting, that by recognizing our broken nature and taking responsibility for it through an opportunity to reconcile broken relationships (taking in an orphan, re-unifying mother and child, frogs falling from the sky, hari and kris, etc) that there might be hope for redemption? – and if that were true, maybe “Truth” actually does exist, despite are incapability to be totally honest with ourselves? …to which i strongly feel, was the actual “point” of Rashomon, and seems to be a substantial truth of Paris, Texas as well.

sorry about ranting on about a whole other film – hope it made sense.

Paris, Texas was part of a lenton film series i am involved in (began a week before Ash Wednesday, in preparation of lent). we used your essay here to help process the film. so again, thanks.

http://www.theauteurs.com/lists/4058

]]> By: Anahttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/blue-light-red-light-paris-texas-from-criterion/#comment-3972 Ana Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:00:41 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=6287#comment-3972 Great post, Gareth, enjoyed reading it! It has been a long time since I have seen Paris,Texas and thanks to your review, I plan to see it again very soon. Great post, Gareth, enjoyed reading it! It has been a long time since I have seen Paris,Texas and thanks to your review, I plan to see it again very soon.

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