See the world in a grain of sand...
I am slightly fascinated with Angelina Jolie. It's not that she's attractive because she's isn't as attractive as everyone hypes her up to be. I love Jolie as an actress and what I know from media coverage of her as a person. I know I sound soooo naive, but it's true. I love the fact that Jolie is a humanist though I do find her global baby adopting a bit disturbing. I also wonder about what happened between her and her father that makes her not want to communicate with him. I say all of this to show that I admire her, but of course my comments on tomb raider are not really about her.
There is this line in the movie when she reads a poem that her father left for her in a letter. "See the world in a grain of sand..." The poem continues but I currently don't remember it. According to the movie it's by William Blake. What I would like to know is why does poetry always seem so meaningful in movies? Maybe I can't relate to poetry unless it is spoken and associated with an event. After I saw the movie I wanted to go out and buy a book of poems by william blake but I know that if I had to take a course in poetry I would fail as a result of boredom. What makes poetry so meaningful to some but not to others? I'm beginning to think that the answer must be in one's ability to relate to or connect with the words. Outside of the movie I wouldn't have related to the poem. And people say that you can't learn anything from mainstream movies!
There is this line in the movie when she reads a poem that her father left for her in a letter. "See the world in a grain of sand..." The poem continues but I currently don't remember it. According to the movie it's by William Blake. What I would like to know is why does poetry always seem so meaningful in movies? Maybe I can't relate to poetry unless it is spoken and associated with an event. After I saw the movie I wanted to go out and buy a book of poems by william blake but I know that if I had to take a course in poetry I would fail as a result of boredom. What makes poetry so meaningful to some but not to others? I'm beginning to think that the answer must be in one's ability to relate to or connect with the words. Outside of the movie I wouldn't have related to the poem. And people say that you can't learn anything from mainstream movies!