Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
A woman was gossiping with a friend about a man she hardly knew. That night she had a dream. A great hand appeared over her and pointed down at her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession, and she told the old parish priest the whole thing.
“Is gossiping a sin? Father, tell me, have I done something wrong?”
“Yes! Yes, you ignorant, badly brought-up female! You have borne false witness against your neighbor, you have played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed!”
So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness. “Not so fast! I want you to go home, take a pillow up on your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me!”
So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to the roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed.
“Did you gut the pillow with the knife? What was the result?”
“Feathers,” she said. “Feathers everywhere, Father!”
“Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out on the wind!”
“Well, it can’t be done. I don’t know where they went. The wind took them all over.”
“And that is gossip!”
- You haven't the slightest proof of anything.
- But I have my certainty, and armed with that, I will go to your last parish, and the one before that if necessary. Trust me, Father Flynn, I will do what needs to be done, though I'm damned to Hell!
- I can't say everything, you understand? Even if you can’t imagine the explanation, Sister, remember there are things beyond your knowledge. Even if you feel certainty, it is an emotion, not a fact. I've done nothing wrong. I care about the boy.
- Why? ‘Cause you smile at him and you sympathize with him, and you talk to him as if you were the same? You're a cheat.
- I can fight you.
- You'll lose.
기분전환할겸 cgv 사이트를 둘러 보다가 필이 꽂혀서 표를 끊었다. (작년 이맘때는 연을 쫓는 아이가 그랬음 ㅎㅎ)
이 영화도 연극이 원작이었군. 말이 필요 없다. 팽팽한 이야기 전개와 배우들의 연기가 눈이 부신다. (이번 아카데미에 메릴 스트립, 필립 시무어 호프먼, 에이미 애덤스, 바이올라 데이비스까지 4명이나 후보에 올랐지만 아무도 상은 못 탐;;; 아니. 그렇담 케이트 윈슬렛이나 페넬로페 크루즈는 얼마나 연기를 잘 했다는 거야???)
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회색웃음 2009.03.10 00:20
또 영여야~ 팽~
(Last year, I tried to read a paper book name of 'The Kite Runner'. But I should stop reading at almost 10 pages because it was difficult to read for me. :( Someday later, I'll try it again without any other information like watching movie. That's why I don't watch that movie until now. ^.^) 후다닥~-
궁시렁 2009.03.10 10:42
I got so fascinated by the movie The Kite Runner and then bought the book immediately; and it unveiled so many things unexplained.
열림원에서 나온 책 읽으시면 영화는 보지 않으셔도 됩... (응?) 각색에 큰 변화는 없어요.
+ 영화 스크립트를 그냥 긁어다 놓았을 뿐... 굳이 한글로 쓰지 않으려는 의도는 없었음을 분명히 밝힙니다. 'Cause I'm totally innocent. ㅋㅋㅋ
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Happyrea 2009.03.13 23:35
저도 이영화 봤는데, 배우들의 연기에 박수를 칠수 밖에 없더군요.
전 사실 애이미애덤스를 좋아해서 보게된 영화지만, 다른 배우에게도 반해버렸지요. ^^
스킨이 넘 이쁩니다. 이 스킨에도 반했는걸요..ㅎㅎㅎ
반갑습니다~-
궁시렁 2009.03.14 00:00
레아님 반갑습니다. ㅅㅅ 오늘 레아님 블로그에 믹스업 했었죠? ㅎㅎ
전 이 영화 보기 전까지 에이미 애덤스는 누군지 몰랐어요. 니콜 키드먼의 이미지와 약간 비슷하다고만 생각했는데, 지명도가 꽤 있는 배우더군요.
많은(그러니까 세 명 이상) 분들이 스킨을 칭찬해 주시니 어깨가 으쓱으쓱하네요. 꺄르륵-
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