Ikiru wrote:My avatar (and screen name) come from my favourite film,
Ikiru, directed by Akira Kurosawa (the title means "To Live" in Japanese).
Here's a good article on the film:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/307
I would very much like to see this film. I didn't see whether it has subtitles.
"What it says in starkly lucid terms is that ‘life’ is meaningless when everything is said and done; at the same time one man’s life can acquire meaning when he undertakes to perform some task that to him is meaningful. What everyone else thinks about that man’s life is utterly beside the point, even ludicrous. The meaning of his life is what he commits the meaning of his life to be. There is nothing else.”
I really, really like this quote and I intend to 'steal' it (with accreditation, of course). I am now on the search for the nearest specialized movie rental place in town...
PS. You aren't giving us some hint here about your current health, are you?
PPS. Wanna start a thread about the last line in the quote?
Transformative fire...