Abyssus abyssum invocat

[halcyonbird]

On Saturday, I ended up seeing the Chronicle of Narnia in the theater. Overall, I was disappointed. I expect this was inevitable, because I remembered the brillance with which C. S. Lewis wrote the book, and *that* could never be captured, especially by Disney. The movie started off very romantically with the four children, and I enjoyed it very much. Later, they started changing the storyline around too much... and I felt they ended up losing part of the real message there. Either they had no understanding of the importance of the little things, or quite the opposite. I was afraid of Liam doing Aslan's voice, and it wasn't as bad as I thought... though I would have still preferred James earl Jones doing it. =) The battle at the end was spectacular, and screamed of WETA. Overall, visually far more stunning than the previous BBC film, but perhaps more...hollow. They chopped away the beauty of the outter branches, but the trunk remained.

You always see it as space
filled with the cascade of air
where glass splinters reflect and glitter
like seeds planted in the distant stones.

Now observe the abyss that glitters
in the eye's reflection.
We all bear it in us.
When men are gathered together
they shift the abyss like a boat
on their shoulders.

Nothing to bypass in this commotion.
Take a ray from the eye and write
your sign.
Though you see no abyss in the mind
don't imagine that it is not there.
Light may not reach your sight, but the boat
shifts on to your shoulders;
the abyss is clothed in flesh,
become Fact
in all men.

JPII