Monday, June 05, 2017

Meaning of discussing about Distance?

Is any meaning or merit in discussing about Distance?

Reason I started writing the blog from view point of distance is just because I am not good at measuring distance in life.

But I imagine, we who are living in the world, where global economy violently unites a whole world in a second, while on the other hand a lot of nationalism is arising in each area of the world.

In such a condition, how to measure the world might be a key to explore the world.
To measure distance between 2 objects in front of oneself and to measure distance from oneself to the objects, both.

And what kind of stories in the Distance itself we can find out might be also a key to enjoy the life.
Some kind of distance in real life never disapeare unfortunately, however, (or rather) that's why we can enjoy the life.

As a trial, some memos are trying to analyse Movie, Music or whatever from the view point of Distance.
From my view, impressive movies contain a lot of Distance in different phases which gives the movies richness.
And the most impressive ones sometimes suggest unmeasurable Distance.
Unmeasurable means "unable to describe in text" but those great movie shows or embrace that unmeasurable Distance in a picture, that is the real pleasure of a movie, I believe.

It might be called composition of plots or the theme, I guess. If we analyse movies every time from the view poin of Distance, it would be boring and spoil the great movies.
But it may give us a hint to our real life.

Distance between a movie and a real life......

"Gran Torino"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/

Spoiler alert.

Story of:

Distance as a division between White America and Immigrant.

Distance between an old man who lost his wife and his other family.
Distance between a family tie and communication with an adjacent resident's family who belongs to completely different culture.
Distance in a same ethnic group.
Distance between an aggressive character and a shy personality, in a short-term view and a middle-term view.
Distance between good-old American 70's spirit and today's global pop youth culture.
Distance in design between a characteristic car and a economical car.
Distance between steeling and maintenance.
Distance between outrage and a bait.
Distance between a life and a death.
Distance between a preserved young life and the old man's death in exchange for the young's life.

Distance as a hope between White America and Immigrant.

"A Perfect World"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107808/

Spoiler alert.

Story of:
Distance between a boy and a prison breaker.
(Originally huge distance, no relationship. But by accident they shall be close to each other.)
Distance between the prison breaker and his missing father.
Distance between boyhood and adult life.
Distance between good and bad.
Distance between social justice and individual right.
Distance between religious restriction and populism.
Distance between friendship and hostility .
Distance between mother's embrace and the friendship.
Distance between old fashioned manual investigation and scientific basis investigation.
Distance between a sniper and the prison breaker.
Distance between a postcard and a gun.
Distance between Alaska and main land.
Distance between a scenery picture and a real life.
Distance between a scenary picture and a perfect world.

Distance between the real life and the perfect world.
"Perfect" dosen't require "Distance", does it?

Perfect world might be an utopia which requires no distance to anybody.
That would be for the persons who are not good at handling real distance in the real world.