- Train Dreams
- Republicans on the need to carry guns;
- How the truth in Minneapolis is whatever Trump says it is;
- And how the administration altered images and made false posts;
- Heather Cox Richardson on KQED Forum this morning;
- Brief items about the Minnesota COC, a pro-ICE church, and the Mississippi governor.
We watched a lovely movie last night called Train Dreams; it’s one of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscar this year. It’s dramatic and meditative, and resembles the films of Terrence Malick, as I noticed and the link here confirms, with its narration and lingering shots and occasional flashes of what may be hallucinations or memories or something supernatural. The early part of the film concerns the main character working as a logger clearing hillsides for railway construction in the Pacific Northwest. And one character says:
This world is intricately stitched together, boys.
Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things.
We’re but children on this earth, pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods.
This is enlightened thinking, likely due to Denis Johnson, who wrote the 2011 novella the movie is based on. (The entire script, or transcript, is online.)
