In reference to King Arthur (Clive Owens) film of 2004

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...I did though watch the video of King Arthur (2004) with Clive Owens as Arthur. There was a sentiment with a few lines of dialogue by Arthur in regards to "freedom" repeated several times throughout the film. It was more than a sentiment in these men's lives, it was a passionate desire and belief that they wanted for themselves (as if it were the Holy Grail of their lives.)

As I watched I remembered being moved in regards to this same feeling and passionate desire for "freedom" while watching Braveheart (Mel Gibson's film) and probably in some other films that impressed me while I was growing up. That feeling that gets stirred up when one, like myself, (and perhaps you also) see persons or people believing and acting ferverently in some "ideal". That human nature lifts itself to a higher level of truth (that was probably always there throughout all the ages but buried because of all the baseness that appealed to man's physical nature (ie. the seven deadly sins, sloth, gluttony, pride,lust, etc. and whatever the others are) and acts upon it with his whole being.

I consider "true love" to be up there with "true freedom", "true" being the ideal, not just that which is aspired to, which people say is unobtainable or can never be achieved, but that which must exist because we can sense it, we know it in our very beings, within our true selves, our true hearts, that these ideals are and they become innate feelings which exist.

...strangely though, in growing up I was always inspired by the ideal attributes of individual men. Ben Hur, Shane, El Cid, Lawrence of Arabia, Gordon of Khartom, Denys Finch-Haddon (Robert Redford character in Out of Africa), Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, William Wallace of Mel Gibson's Braveheart. I saw these men in videos and I wanted to be like them, have their strengths, have the power of personality or presence to lead others towards doing some good and making a good difference, showing people they've the ideal deep within them...

February 12, 2005