I’m hiking in order to save myself – At 22 she lost her mother, in the four years following – everything unravels. Thats why Cheryl Strayed decided to walk the the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed’s memoir about the hike, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a fantastic story about transformation and becoming oneself. The movie…
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La grande bellezza
Yesterday my study of beauty led me to the movies, to see Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) (2013), a film which has been described as Sorrentino’s modern take on the themes of Fellini’s La dolce vita. La grande bellezza is a film about Jep Gambardella, a journalist (and a stalled author) who…
To look one’s age
I went to see the The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the movies yesterday. It’s not an outstanding film, its entertaining, but not exceptional in any ways – other than this; the characters actually looks their age. Look at Judy Dench: isn’t she beautiful?! Wouldn’t it just be fantastic if young girls, women and old…
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