Dear, dear John, this is all true, but much moreso than you speak.
I want to mention this strange thing in context. I watched a very worldly movie right before I realized I had to simply give up ALL movies, just about ALL movies, even though I probably love movies as much as Scorsese the Director.
This is a movie of particular haunting quality, and Siskel and Ebert kept going on and on and on about it being one of the best movies they had ever seen until I finally rented it. Actually, for an R hoodlum movie it had much less filth than most, but probably enough that I can't mention the name of it. I don't really remmeber, but I know that every single R rated movie is restricted, period. And for excellent reason. Restricted to those who live in satan's world and follow his leading.
But it was so goodI watched it once, rewound and watched it again. Tried to watch it a third time until I had to take it back. It is just mesmerizingly well done. The acting was off the wall.
It's a gangster thing about a handful of wasted humans. But it is deeply, deeply profound. In it the wasted lead character says to a detective, "You know, the greatest thing the devil ever did was get people to believe he doesn't exist?"
THAT, my brother, is a profound scene. I see that movie in everything, even the Church.
And there is nothing, nothing I can do about it. That's something we have to live with, and just go about business waiting to see where it is all going. |
