Thursday, September 3, 2015

Closing Scene

Hateful and spineless, raped and robbed, mangled and witless, they were as good as we are, you can say that again!-- Celine

When we see Jessica Tandy's aggressive pace on her walker as Dan Aykroyd and Morgan Freeman flank her, attempting forcible engagement, it is realistic enough, for the time in which Driving Miss Daisy was made and satirized since, but where camera lenses trick viewers is within frames of skillful artifice we barely notice-- not in Tandy's rebuff of Aykroyd, but in the depopulated background around Tandy while Freeman feeds her. Life does offer these candy cane holistic moments of redemption in decline. Nursing homes and hospices are chaotic, crowded places over run with Foley catheters and urine capture bags. None of us should have to die this way, in essence pointing to nature's mercy with the Syrian toddler.

The ocean wiped out horrific possibilities.

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