Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
War And Remembrance
In 1988 ABC television began airing one of the greatest video sagas of all time - the 30 hour mini-series War And Remembrance. I just watched a DVD collection of this historical WWII screenplay of Herman Wouk's novel.
It is a grand story telling that touches many of man's biggest themes and daily concerns. I suppose we could easily call it an important epic to be told, and to be seen.
Though I don't wish to reduce it, a topic of great interest to me has been dying/death. There were so so so many deaths in this movie, though primarily war dying and holocaust murder/genocide, there were deaths of various sorts. Given my relative fascination with death on such a scale as a tearing away of masks of human importance, I was satisfied to see enough dramatic renderings, actual photographic imagery, and emaciated, naked, and destroyed bodies.
There was an opportunity in this film to imagine into the sort of randomness that each of our lives continue to stand, and the inevitability of our demises, and a predilection for existential conclusions regarding the meanings of life.
The horror of the Jewish holocaust was rendered in so much detail and apparent veracity, for (s)he who watches, this strange inhuman humanity will be much harder to forget. Among so much communicated history, efforts to find and retain a spirituality in such dehumanizing conditions was also depicted and noted vicariously in the viewer.
Over five years in the making, the stamina required by director, writer, coproducer Dan Curtis is astounding. The acting was fine. The ginormity of this industry endeavor that shot in many countries seems almost heroic. I think I heard it said that more than 40,000 actors took part. If you were to watch the short documentaries on the making of the mini-series, you would know more fully what I mean. These short movies about the movie were included in the DVD set that I got from the library.
For the 1980's with little electronic special effects, any visual hokiness factor was amazingly low.
Very good - it would be worth seeing! Anyone seen it already, the story that picks up where the mini-series of Herman Wouk, Winds Of War let off?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Remembrance_(miniseries)
It is a grand story telling that touches many of man's biggest themes and daily concerns. I suppose we could easily call it an important epic to be told, and to be seen.
Though I don't wish to reduce it, a topic of great interest to me has been dying/death. There were so so so many deaths in this movie, though primarily war dying and holocaust murder/genocide, there were deaths of various sorts. Given my relative fascination with death on such a scale as a tearing away of masks of human importance, I was satisfied to see enough dramatic renderings, actual photographic imagery, and emaciated, naked, and destroyed bodies.
There was an opportunity in this film to imagine into the sort of randomness that each of our lives continue to stand, and the inevitability of our demises, and a predilection for existential conclusions regarding the meanings of life.
The horror of the Jewish holocaust was rendered in so much detail and apparent veracity, for (s)he who watches, this strange inhuman humanity will be much harder to forget. Among so much communicated history, efforts to find and retain a spirituality in such dehumanizing conditions was also depicted and noted vicariously in the viewer.
Over five years in the making, the stamina required by director, writer, coproducer Dan Curtis is astounding. The acting was fine. The ginormity of this industry endeavor that shot in many countries seems almost heroic. I think I heard it said that more than 40,000 actors took part. If you were to watch the short documentaries on the making of the mini-series, you would know more fully what I mean. These short movies about the movie were included in the DVD set that I got from the library.
For the 1980's with little electronic special effects, any visual hokiness factor was amazingly low.
Very good - it would be worth seeing! Anyone seen it already, the story that picks up where the mini-series of Herman Wouk, Winds Of War let off?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Remembrance_(miniseries)
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