Tolstoy and Malick

Earlier this summer I saw Terrence Malick’s experimental film The Tree of Life. Other than the film itself, I was fascinated by the audience’s reaction to it – both during and immediately following, when one man exclaimed “what a waste of my time!” He was apparently not alone in this sentiment, since the film drew boos at its Cannes Film Festival premiere. Obviously,...
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Music Realized

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley What does it mean to “realize” something? According to Merriam-Webster, it means “to conceive vividly as real: be fully aware of” and ”to bring into concrete existence.” Taken together, these definitions allude to the need for two actors in the process of...
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