The world is a mask that hides the real world.
Thatâs what everybody suspects, though the world we see wonât let us dwell on it long.
The world has ways - more masks - of getting our attention.
The suspicion sneaks in now and again, between the cracks of everyday existenceâ¦the bird song dips, rises, dips, trails off into blue sky silence before the note that would reveal the shape of a melody that, somehow, would tie everything together, on the verge of unmasking the hidden armature that frames this sky, this tree, this bird, this quivering green leaf, jewels in a crown.â¦
As the song dies, the secret withdraws.
The tree is a mask.
The sky is a mask.
The quivering green leaf is a mask.
The song is a mask.
The singing bird is a mask.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
a boy & his falcon
I'd love to see this movie, but, oddly, it's been erased from the server I was working on today; oddly I say because the file had all the attributes of data integrity, but the digital video refused to stream or download – the only feature film thus unavailable in a folder containing hundreds of digitized movies.
Thomas the Falconer (Sokoliar Tomáš)
directed by Václav Vorlícek, Slovak Republic, PG, 2000, 96 mins, children's story
The main hero of this tale is 14 year-old Thomas, who has the gift of understanding animal speech. He lives with his family in the mountains, until the tragic death of his father.
In order to fend for his family, he sets off for the mighty Balador's castle. It's there that he befriends Balador's daughter. However, a chain of events at the castle gets him involved in a course of intrigue, which he has to battle against. While on the run, he meets the falconer Vagan, and he takes refuge at his lodge in the mountains. Will Thomas' gift help him gain the legendary royal falcon? Will the falcon help him fight for justice and his own freedom?
[source: The European Union Cultural Committee & Singapore Film Society
