I.
I get settled (in the cloud)
in settles in place
your arm don’t meet your body
no joint (I looked)
and your hair, that magnet, don’t grow-
it glows (I see it)
II.
Heat from steaming pressed slacks
no aloneness wet streets
you are newness, makingness,
beyond mere essence creationing
prussian blue electrical talk I
watch You be You are You all
creole was not made and it’s spoken
Be Kind Rewind isn’t a great movie. Its just not. But it is kind. Filled with smiles and gentle softness, it celebrates the joy of mutual creation. Sentimentality is a secondary feeling and its best appreciated as a construct of our own creativity. We create (re-create) our pasts and can connect ourselves to our past in ever new and inventive ways.
And in our day to day lives, our search for connection is best lived in shared creative endeavor. We go from passive viewers, to retelling told stories (‘sweding’ films), to reinventing our shared past to connect us to it, to creating a new story in the present through our connections of intimacy.
This movie isn’t great. But it moved me. I was crying at a number of scenes that revelled in the joy of shared art (in this case a community made film) that transcends so many social ‘barriers’.
A confused, weak, and low reaching script still hit home for me with the kind energy of its spirit.
What I liked:
*People sweating in a dry cleaning shop
*A PG-13 movie that I would feel good bringing a teenager to. Its got a lot of redemptive themes in it for a younger person. Not too challenging for adult viewers, but I could see it turning on middle schoolers to the joy of films (and filming).
Last Word:
Bring the young teenagers in your life to this film and have a good ol’ time.
Ryan McGivern
