Al Pacino (he's pictured above) "goes deep" in a conversation with David Marchese, published in the October 13, 2024, Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine. That is, at any rate, what is promised on the cover of the magazine.
If you click this link, you will find that the introduction to the "online" version of the conversation states that Pacino is "going big," not going "deep." I guess you can get "deeper," if not "bigger," when you read the hard copy version. Having read them both (they're identical - except you can watch Al Pacino video clips if you go online), I'm sticking with "deep."
For instance, and here's an Al Pacino thought for a Sunday (the bold type is Marchese):
In “Scent of a Woman,” there’s the big monologue: “If I were the man I was five years ago, I’d take a flamethrower to this place!” You’re giving that speech, and in the space between words we see little microemotions flash across your face. Is that something that you’re in conscious control of? Or are you exuding something in the moment that’s beyond your control? Yep. That’s the one.
It’s the latter? That’s what happens. I have always felt that to free the unconscious, to allow that freedom — my favorite quote of Michelangelo’s: Free me of myself, Lord, that I may please you. And once you get into that freedom, the unconscious goes to work.
I keep mentioning the thought, in my blog postings, that we live in "Two Worlds," simultaneously. Most immediately, we live in the "Human World" that we create ourselves, by our own actions. Ultimately, though, we inhabit the "World of Nature" that created us. Saying that the World of Nature "created us" is one way of looking at it, and more or less cements us to the idea that what I usually call the "World of Nature" is also properly described as "The World That God Created."
Ultimately, we do live in that "World That God Created," since every aspect of our own "Human World" is totally dependent upon the "World of Nature," which is ultimately best described as "Planet Earth."
I am thinking that I don't need to show you, once again, that picture of "Earth from Space," the picture that proves the point. At least, I think it proves the point. Our lives - and "Our World" - exists on that beautiful planet, and everything that is "ours" is dependent on it. And.... it "created us," not the other way around.
It turns out, if Al Pacino is right, even our own thoughts, and our own words, are founded upon something that is "deeper," or "bigger," than we ourselves. As previously mentioned, it's a Sunday. It's a good time to entertain this thought.
In fact, this day, like any day, is a good day to entertain the idea that freeing ourselves of ourselves, and all that we have personally accomplished and honored, may be where human freedom really lies.
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