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What a fantastic interpretation of the modern urban space! I can imagine hundreds of scenarios to explain this picture. A shuttle could be flying away from the green landing pad at any time. I’m irremediably attracted to the little spot of red on the building’s facade. I can’t decipher what it is. Maybe it is an homage to the wonderful opening of Blade Runner in which giant flames of exhaust gasses belch out of oil refinery towers in the smoky megalopolis and are reflected in the gaze of the onlooker…

If you want to read more about Blade Runner, Manuel and Filippo have written beautiful articles about it a few months ago on the This is Now blog.

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As difficult as catching a cloud, as easy as telling our name, ‘now’ is something so brief, and at the same time, so tangible and real in our lifes, that we live in the paradox of going through it and leaving it behind. Those are supreme moments, keys elements of our lifes, which, however, are left behind, without the possibility of preventing it.

In the first place, I thought about putting together this fleeting ‘now’ with the slow passing of time which appeared in the film ‘The Remains of the Day’. But a few minutes later, one scene caught my attention: Rutger Hauer in ‘Blade Runner‘, talking about wonders he had seen and enjoyed. “And all those moments will disappear, like tears in the rain”:

That’s the meaning of ‘now’. Wonderful moments which slip between our fingers like the water flow. Unique, unforgettable, and unrecoverable.

Manuel
http://unrinconapartado.es/wordpress/ (personal blog)
http://www.noescinetodoloquereluce.com/

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Tan difícil como cazar una nube, tan sencillo como pronunciar su nombre, el ‘ahora’ es algo tan fugaz, y, a la vez, tan tangible y presente en nuestras vidas, que vivimos en la paradoja de pasar por él mientras va quedando atrás. Son instantes supremos para cada uno de nosotros, son esos elementos que forman nuestra vida, pero que, inevitablemente, se van quedando atrás, sin que podamos hacer nada por impedirlo.

Inicialmente pensé en asociar ese ‘ahora’ fugaz con el lento discurrir del tiempo que aparece en la magistral Lo Que Queda del Día, pero, a los pocos minutos, una imagen me cautivó: Rutger Hauer en Blade Runner, hablando de maravillas que solo él ha visto y disfrutado. ‘Y todos esos momentos desaparecerán, como lágrimas en la lluvia’:

En eso consiste el ‘ahora’. Maravillosos momentos que se nos escapan de entre los dedos como el agua que fluye. Únicos, inolvidables, e irrecuperables.

Manuel
http://unrinconapartado.es/wordpress/ (blog personal)
http://www.noescinetodoloquereluce.com/

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Speaking of ‘now’ is not easy.

This is because we are faced with a term whose meaning is not so much elusive for his abstract, but because it deals with facts, situations, moments associated with the past.

Is Panta Rei (everything is in movement) the best description?

Everything just flows, nothing stays the same. Everything is subject to the inexorable laws of the time.
Try to dwell on this moment, concentrate.

Done?

It has already passed.
‘now’ became Past.

Reaching a hasty conclusion, therefore, one might say that any contemporary (I mean in the literal meaning of the term) does not exist because there is a time that precedes it.

The result, sad but inevitable, that is the only true now is that requiring the absence of a subsequent temporality.

Just to rejoice a little, know that that moment is indeed the last of life, that the extreme of awareness.

Cinema in the reflections on death and on the so many so-called Famous Last Words.

Among the most famous quotes could be ‘time to die!’ that concludes the wonderful monologue of the replicant Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, a milestone in the history of cinema.

However, for me, the more significant last words that the big screen has been able to give us is of another kind, that of Rosabella (Rosebud in the original version) delivered by Orson Welles Citizen Kane’s opening of the beautiful Fourth Power.

A simple name followed by a ball of glass that shatters on the floor.

The meaning of now is all there, in a puff of voice that, while being at the death of a character, opens the way for an entire story.

Because nobody has ever said that the time someone has to represent is the end of everything.

Look the same for Orson Welles.

For him, that word has been an incredible reversal (not only positive, unfortunately).

Look at the history of Cinema.

From that moment it has not been the same.

Magnifico Filippo

http://cinedelia.blogspot.com/
http://cineocchio.altervista.org/wordpress/

Parlare dell’Adesso non è certo cosa facile.
Questo perché ci si trova di fronte ad un termine il cui significato è sfuggevole non tanto per il suo essere astratto, ma perché affronta fatti, situazioni, momenti legati al passato.
Ricordate il Panta Rei?
Tutto scorre appunto, niente rimane uguale. Ogni cosa è sottoposta alle inesorabili leggi del tempo.
Provate a soffermarvi su questo momento, concentratevi.
Fatto?
E’ già passato.
E’ diventato Passato appunto.

Giungendo ad una conclusione affrettata, dunque, si potrebbe dire che ogni contemporaneità (mi riferisco al significato letterale del termine) non esiste in quanto c’è un tempo che la precede.
Il risultato, triste ma inevitabile, è che l’unico vero Adesso è quello che presuppone l’assenza di una temporalità successiva.
Tanto per rallegrarvi un po’ sappiate che quel momento è appunto l’ultimo della vita, quello dell’estrema presa di coscienza.

Nel Cinema le riflessioni sulla morte e sulle cosiddette Ultime Parole Famose sono tantissime.
Tra le più celebri si può citare quell’E’ tempo di morire! che conclude lo splendido monologo del replicante Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, una pietra miliare nella storia del cinema.
Per quanto mi riguarda però l’Ultima Parola più significativa che il grande schermo ha saputo donarci è un’altra.
Quella Rosabella (Rosebud nella versione originale) pronunciata dal Cittadino Kane Orson Welles nello splendido incipit di Quarto Potere.
Un semplice nome, seguito da una palla di vetro che si frantuma sul pavimento.
Il significato di Adesso è tutto lì, in un soffio di voce che, pur rappresentando la fine di un personaggio, apre la strada ad un’intera storia.
Perché nessuno ha mai detto che l’Ora di qualcuno deve per forza rappresentare la fine di tutto.
Guardate lo stesso Orson Welles.
Per lui quella parola ha rappresentato un incredibile capovolgimento (non solo in positivo purtroppo).
Guardate la storia del Cinema.
Da quel momento non è stata più la stessa.

Filippo Magnifico

http://cinedelia.blogspot.com/
http://cineocchio.altervista.org/wordpress/

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