We are getting moved in and getting things put away. We never fully settled in California. When we first moved there, after the accident and stayed with Dan and Chloe, we lived in one room with our things in storage 3/4 in Santa Cruz and 1/4 still in Atlanta. We were there a year.
When I became a manager for Radio Shack in San Jose, we moved over the mountain, but we didn't know where we would settle so we moved into a hotel suite, leaving our things in storage. It was another year there before we were both settled in jobs and knew where we would be and got a house. We moved our belongings from storage and I went home to Atlanta and rented a truck to bring our things from there but we were working so much (Jean over 60 hours a week and me up to 80) that we never fully were able to unpack all of our boxes. We enjoyed the home and made it our own, but just didn't have time or energy to fully unpack and settle in.
Now we are unpacking clothes and belongings which we boxed in Atlanta in 2000 and had not had access to for almost 4 years. It is a lot of work but it feels a little like Christmas.
We watched a delightful DVD tonight, a Chinese film called "Shadow Magic." It is a film about when the first motion pictures were brought to China about 1900 and the interaction of the two cultures. It is a warm and personal film. We have seen two other Chinese films like this recently: "The Road Home" and "The King of Masks."
All of these films are warm, personal dramas about very real people at key moments in their lives. There are no special effects, car chases or super-heroes, no space stations or exploding fireballs, just the intimate and poignant interaction of people at those crossroads in their lives when choice or chance brings them unexpected journeys and more true drama and emotion than they bargained for. The characters interactions with those near to them both reveals and expands them and provides the true beauty of the films.
This was what I first fell in love with about movies back in the 60s and it is a treasure to rediscover it.
Posted by apopheniac at January 28, 2004 09:56 PM