Benediction (2022) Director: Terence Davies In my formative years of childhood, I often wondered what it meant to be strong and have others follow your instructions. With my parents’ teachings, I assumed it came with age. Just as I was told to respect my elders, I assumed power and strength came automatically as I grew up. I thought maybe my deeds would carry me through. The Universe would balance off everything in the end. How naive? Bad things happen to good people and vice versa. There is no fair game. My bubble finally burst. Nobody gave me two hoots about my age. Everybody was trying to dominate the other with the power of articulation or wealth. Eskimos would be sold ice, and drinking water could be sold to unassuming naive dwellers of the tropics. As if nobody caught it when Evian spelt backwards is naive! Then I caught people selling the idea that time is cyclical and birth is repetitive. This birth is the punishment for the past and a test-bed for the future. Bunkum, I say. A...
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