a glorious awakening - Roger Michell (2010 ) BRIAN DE PALMA
By intuition or knowingly breathed in American film legend.
"Morning Glory / A glorious awakening" myth breathe, breathe humanity.
circular time, the myth of eternal return. Cycles.
was "born" in the spring (leaves, flowers, fruits ...) and "dies" in winter. To "re-born" again next spring.
Similarly, in modern life, our "New Year," our hope "reborn" of each January, as older leaves fall and dies calendar "year-end." To "re-birth" to the next.
cycles. From dawn to dusk. And a new dawn.
Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) has completed its cycle, has grown old and is dying (as a journalist) as well as the "Dawn" of American television. For both night falls.
Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) and spring brings a new dawn ("re-born" in his new job as a producer of the "Dawn" after being "dead" in the above).
cycle, the circle is present in the staging: notified of his new job, Becky uproar bursts from within the circle of the letter "a" (logo of the television.) The pigeons fly. It's Spring, is the re-birth.
We take comfort in the re-birth of Becky, the re-birth of Mike Pomeroy, the re-birth of the "Dawn." It's that simple. So human. Such is life.
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