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| solitude in groups, feeling lonely, feeling like you are waiting for someone. |
The end of this film is the most important (and famous part.)
For me, it is about being present in a moment with someone. Actually present.
And thoughts of the green ray phenomenon itself. The sun is in the sky for all day, for a moment right before night it flashes green. You must know to look for it.
All of our days, and connections this is the sun in the sky.
Just like Delphine had many people around her, a surfeit of connections but feeling no connection. In a moment she was there and they looked at the same thing and were present: a green ray.
That’s it, looking at the same thing, even for a moment.
For some in a life that is all you get. A moment.
Banjo songs and loneliness
At the time I first watched this I was listening to old time banjo songs with solo singers. The lyrics were so simple, yet sad and evocative.
Hang me oh hang me, I’ll be dead and gone. Hang me oh hang me, I’ll be dead and gone. It’s not the hanging that I mind, it’s the lying in the grave so long. I’ve been all around this world.
Over yonder in the graveyard Where the wild, wild flowers grow There they laid my own true lover She’d gone from me, forever more Fairer than the sweetest flower Restless as the wildest way Pored in with love deep as an ocean This is the girl that I did win I left her there back in the mountain To see the world riches to gain Oh, when I return no earthy treasure Could ease this heart so filled with pain They saw high above the mountain Beneath that little mound of clay The girl that I returned to marry So stand a mound of flowers did la I’ll go lay you down and wonder Lay aside my earthy gain All I am undone in riches Undone in sorrow I’ll remain Undone in sorrow I’ll remain