In the third Maisie Dobbs book, our heroine finally returns to France twelve years after her war injury. The great thing about being on vacation is that, once the nieces and nephew zonk out around 8 or 8:30, I have plenty of time to read. Turns out, it didn't really need rugby to tell it. That was the story I was looking for in this movie, with rugby as the metaphor. Rugby was irrelevant to their transition from old guard to integrated unit, from pre-apartheid suspicions of each other to trusting each other as a cohort protecting the President. To me, the most compelling characters weren't the rugby team or the history-making President the motley crew that made up Mandela's security detail were actually the most fascinating. Similarly, Matt Damon as the national rugby captain seems to just shuffle along - there's never any insight into his words or actions. But for some reason, I found the characters to be pretty one-dimensional: Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela was always the wise Madiba and only seemed like an ordinary human in a few scenes, when his estrangement from his family is mentioned. I wanted to love it, because the set-up was so great: a Nobel Peace Prize-wining man who spent 27 years in prison becomes president of a country struggling with racial strife and poverty and all the other legacies of apartheid, and an almost-all-white rugby team comes from behind to unite their divided country and win the World Cup. I do tend to like movies about sports teams: in the end, they're about working out differences and cooperating, which is why they also make such great parallel stories about nation-shaping and identity-forging.īut I'll admit, I was a little disappointed with Invictus.
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Or cats – heaven forbid.Since New Zealand won it this year - and I had some free time over Christmas break - I finally watched it.
(G defines it neatly: 'Qualia are what save us from being machines.') Sits nicely, in my imagination, with quanta. See my 2 websites, above.Īnd 'qualia'? Well, loosely, the quality of individual subjective conscious experience eg the perception of a colour, or experience of a journey our experience of person-ness.
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Something to do with being earthstuff and starstuff both, all of us, and learning how to cherish. I'm passionate about many things, but I'm increasingly realising that one way or another they're all about relationship: our interconnectedness, and finding ways to make conscious and wise our relationship to self and other (in which I include all species and the planet). I'd love it if you signed up to follow (bottom), told others about and/or linked to this blog, commented or of course bought a book! If you know of a blog I might like to check out, do please tell me. Welcome to these words, friends, and I hope you find something of interest here. Indra's Net, the 10,000 things & neonicotinoids.'language' poetry & the shipping forecast.a squall of grief or wonder: Elisabeth Rowe.quanta + qualia = 'me' (or 'you' 'him' 'her' 'us').the precise timing of a sideways glance: Jennie Os.
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