From the Inside and Outside
Freedom to choose is a limited ability. There are several serious reasons for the limits, the first being the lack of ability to truly choose, but there are also other limitations. But having the lack of ability to choose, does not mean that we do not sense something else is there for us. That sense of yearning which goes undefined. Two movies have approached this critical human dilemma and done so with insightful and cinematic presentation. Both were written by Andrew Niccol.
In 1997, "Gattaca" was released. This movie portrayed the options available to a man who has the right DNA to be successful. It is a movie which explores the question of freedom for work, love, and destiny from a perspective of having the right genetic material. The eugenic Darwinian and scientific state controls who can do what.
The following year, "The Truman Show" debuted to critical and commercial success. Jim Carrey portrays Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of the most popular reality TV show which chronicles every minute of his life. The creator of the show is none other than "Christof", who resides in the sky above the perfect world, "Seahaven". The play on names is obvious between Christ and Heaven with a True Man battling his ambition to explore the world and find his true love. Christof is a more benign controller than the state in Gattaca but in the end, both lead characters are not as free as they wish. They eventually discover there is another world than the one they see.
Have you explored your ambitions and wondered where they came from? Have you ever wondered what's happening to you and your desire to do something else? Have you ever met a frustrating combination of obstacles to what you believed was a path open to you? These are a dangerous set of questions - almost too scary to bring to the front of your thinking - but they are the background noise of life. Rather than explore them, we get busy with the routines of life and miss the greater opportunities for living a bold and rich life.
These movies will challenge you to explore the inside and outside controls in your life. As long as you accept the world presented to you, you will never know about the greater world which exists beyond the painted sky. I invite you to reach out and touch the sky.
Both movies are listed in the Amazon carousel at the bottom of this web page.
In 1997, "Gattaca" was released. This movie portrayed the options available to a man who has the right DNA to be successful. It is a movie which explores the question of freedom for work, love, and destiny from a perspective of having the right genetic material. The eugenic Darwinian and scientific state controls who can do what.
The following year, "The Truman Show" debuted to critical and commercial success. Jim Carrey portrays Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of the most popular reality TV show which chronicles every minute of his life. The creator of the show is none other than "Christof", who resides in the sky above the perfect world, "Seahaven". The play on names is obvious between Christ and Heaven with a True Man battling his ambition to explore the world and find his true love. Christof is a more benign controller than the state in Gattaca but in the end, both lead characters are not as free as they wish. They eventually discover there is another world than the one they see.
Have you explored your ambitions and wondered where they came from? Have you ever wondered what's happening to you and your desire to do something else? Have you ever met a frustrating combination of obstacles to what you believed was a path open to you? These are a dangerous set of questions - almost too scary to bring to the front of your thinking - but they are the background noise of life. Rather than explore them, we get busy with the routines of life and miss the greater opportunities for living a bold and rich life.
These movies will challenge you to explore the inside and outside controls in your life. As long as you accept the world presented to you, you will never know about the greater world which exists beyond the painted sky. I invite you to reach out and touch the sky.
Both movies are listed in the Amazon carousel at the bottom of this web page.
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