"Once, there was a girl who walked straight, yet she was truly lame. She walked upright and in ... boots, yet I tell you, her feet were bare. She lives forever. Yet she lives buried in a vault of fertile air.
And if she, shaken from her torpor, should rise to write, what would she write?"
Love it, love it, love it! It gives me goosebumps just thinking about this movie. And it's so fitting for my life right now, and probaby for many people out there. This is another great movie about the power of music, but also about our own human power to look within ourselves for healing, strength and inspiration.
Faith, freedom, living for the moment, enjoying the present... so many great themes run thoughout this movie. I admire the courage of the writer. Such stimulating, sensual, and refreshing ideas.
And that Saffron Burrows... what a beautiful actress.
I will try to write more when I can sit down and really pour my thoughts out about this one. For now, all I can say is it is definitely my favourite movie, and will probably be for a long time. Watch it, and learn from it. I really needed this, and maybe there are parts that will speak deeply to you too.
"And so it is offered in these optimistic though viral times, a souvenir of another time, with this added prayer:
In art and dream- may you proceed with abandon.
And in life- may you proceed with balance and stealth."
- Writer of The Guitar - Amos Poe
