Rii
Rear Admiral
I revisited this film today for the first time in years and it's still as hauntingly beautiful and affecting as ever. It's about the endless series of moments that bring us to a particular time and place, the invisible paths we walk, tracks we leave, motives we have and burdens we carry. It's about the power of human compassion and understanding; and the difficulty of finding it on account of the various walls erected between each of us.
Each time I watch the film I seem to fixate on a different aspect. This time it was Eric and Christina. It seems to me that Eric's contract with Zoe simply doesn't fit as the catalyst for Eric and Christina's estrangement: it's too fresh and clean a wound to account for what we see between them. Maybe it was the final nail, but things must've been 'on the rocks' beforehand. This is a relationship that crumbled over time.
So if not that; what? I have some thoughts on the matter but I'd be interested to hear from others first.
Each time I watch the film I seem to fixate on a different aspect. This time it was Eric and Christina. It seems to me that Eric's contract with Zoe simply doesn't fit as the catalyst for Eric and Christina's estrangement: it's too fresh and clean a wound to account for what we see between them. Maybe it was the final nail, but things must've been 'on the rocks' beforehand. This is a relationship that crumbled over time.
So if not that; what? I have some thoughts on the matter but I'd be interested to hear from others first.
