Hidden Flick: The Wind Will Carry Us
The Unheard Music, a song, as we set the trash on fire and watch outside the door, men come up the pavement under the marquee—there’s laughing inside; we’re locked outside the public eye…
We float along, often from one misfortune to the next, but, somehow, one envisions a time when our space will be tranquil and free. Until then, the road appears endless—vague things rise and fall on a mysterious path. Venturing forth, one ponders the hidden meaning of it all, and watches from afar, neither touching the earth, or tasting the sky.
And yet…there is something quite compelling about the search for something else, something greater than oneself, something hidden and mysterious, strange and surreal. In our sights, in this week’s edition of Hidden Flick, we explore the clash between man and nature, profane and sacred, chaos and calm, in The Wind Will Carry Us.
The film was written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and features the lush and glorious mountain terrain of a Kurdish village, which is visited by a Tehran film crew intent in documenting the unique burial ceremony of a dying 100-year old woman. The metropolitan needs of the city dwellers hit the patient life of the small community, and the two opposing forces (Western Corruption meets Eastern Spirituality?) slowly find a place in the middle to meet. Or so one is led to ponder with an ethereal sense of hope—can modern man truly understand the poetic so-called banalities of the simple life? Does one reach the point of no return in that unexpected quest to return from whence we came? READ ON for more on this week’s flick…
