Last Tuesday’s lecture was very interesting to me because we got to
see a good chunk of the 1984 film The Razor’s Edge starring Bill
Murray as Larry Darrell and Catherine Hicks as Isabel. I enjoyed this
movie and think it is inspirational for dreamers that don’t care what
anyone else is doing. The movie starts with Larry returning from the
battlefields of World War I to America a changed person. His fiancé,
Isabel His fiance (Isabel) leaves him due to a delay in the wedding
plans when Larry heads off to Paris. In Paris he prefers a similar
existence and begins to read, a lot. A certain book inspires him to
visit India and then on to Nepal where he finds spiritual help from a
lama. Returning to Paris Larry finds Isabel and some old friends.
Everyone has changed.
At the start of the movie Mr. Z recited the opening “He had everything
and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted
everything. He saved the world and then it was shattered. The path to
enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor’s edge.”
I really like that quote and find that it qualifies in every walk of
life and I find it especially relates to the lecture about Maria
Abramović, an artist that takes risks.
Maria Abramović is renowned as the grandmother of performance art. She
pioneered the use of performance art as a visual art form. The body
has been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and
mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and
grave danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
In her interviews shown in class she says that something isn’t worth
doing unless it scares her. In my opinion, her path to enlightenment
has been as sharp and narrow as a razor’s edge, and it has rewarded
her life greatly.
see a good chunk of the 1984 film The Razor’s Edge starring Bill
Murray as Larry Darrell and Catherine Hicks as Isabel. I enjoyed this
movie and think it is inspirational for dreamers that don’t care what
anyone else is doing. The movie starts with Larry returning from the
battlefields of World War I to America a changed person. His fiancé,
Isabel His fiance (Isabel) leaves him due to a delay in the wedding
plans when Larry heads off to Paris. In Paris he prefers a similar
existence and begins to read, a lot. A certain book inspires him to
visit India and then on to Nepal where he finds spiritual help from a
lama. Returning to Paris Larry finds Isabel and some old friends.
Everyone has changed.
At the start of the movie Mr. Z recited the opening “He had everything
and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted
everything. He saved the world and then it was shattered. The path to
enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor’s edge.”
I really like that quote and find that it qualifies in every walk of
life and I find it especially relates to the lecture about Maria
Abramović, an artist that takes risks.
Maria Abramović is renowned as the grandmother of performance art. She
pioneered the use of performance art as a visual art form. The body
has been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and
mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and
grave danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
In her interviews shown in class she says that something isn’t worth
doing unless it scares her. In my opinion, her path to enlightenment
has been as sharp and narrow as a razor’s edge, and it has rewarded
her life greatly.
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