![]() Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia are, for many, the gateway to thinking about Christianity from an early age. It seems to be able to last for ever and ever, and yet the young son, now step-son, is there to remind you the show of life goes on for ever and ever on the stage of the strutting human beings we are.Ĭ.S. I must say the slow rhythm of the film, the very intimate scenes, the delicacy of the language and the acting, and the art of Anthony Hopkins serve that theme so well, so beautifully. He finally learned how to be a fully blooming man, but it hurts so much when you learn love from within the death of your beloved. Lewis actually discovers late in his life and never forgot after that. Love never turns into ashes and never goes back to dirt because it is not dirt, it is the soul of the heart and the mind of life. Love is for life I was going to say, oh yes, love is for life and even beyond life, for death if it comes and when it comes. ![]() ![]() Death comes and love will never go away and will turn into suffering, longing, wanting, needing and never getting the satisfaction you could ever wish to get. And death then becomes an unacceptable step away from this reality. Love as a feeling of total gift of yourself to the other and of the other to yourself, with the tremendous responsibility that goes along with it. ![]()
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