"We flip it around for variety" - Donald Sutherland´s character expressed delightfully during a very memorable scene from the movie Six Degrees of Separation. A side note on the brilliance of the film, strong characters and dialogue. Will Smith at his finest, particularly during his - Catcher in The Rye Thesis - monologue. Well worth watching several times to capture every word about imagination....
Another protagonist in this film is Kandinsky, the Russian painter along with two of his very famous artworks; "Black Lines" and "Several Circles", except in this occasion they´ve merged them together into a one-sided form in order to create a meaningful correlation between art and the film. You can watch a mini clip of the characters showing off their multifaceted prized possession...
Duality. Isn´t everything in life some way double sided? We say that there are two sides to every story, and we flip a coin for head or tales in order to make a decision, right? The way I see it, we always have at least two choices in everything we face in life. You can take the easy way out or fight the hard way, you can change paths into a different direction or continue whatever it is you're doing. You can ride on the wave of chaos... or control...
Or better yet, find the balance between these two. This is something particularly hard for me. As Ive shared with you in the past (ok, yesterday), Im a bit of an extremist so balance is something Im constantly striving for. But I can´t help but think that things get much more interesting when you add up different angles or points of view, don´t you think?
For example, I love pink. Im gaga for tutus, Audrey films, tea at The Ritz and baby pandas. But there´s a whole other side to me, the one that devours film noir and anything Orson Welles, respects sarcasm (Im obviously lying here and I despise it) and the obscurity of Edgar Allan Poe and other not so Winnie The Pooh-esh type of things... And don´t even get me started on the different types of men I´ve had the immeasurable pleasure of dating or being in a relationship with. Night and day. Oil and water. My taste in music also has a wider range than Meryl Streep´s acting abilities and I can switch from Sporty Spice to Lazy Spice in a split second, not too proud of this last one...
Look at Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the example may be quite exceptional but let´s examine this for a moment. Ok, so this guy is a little beyond bi-polar and I would imagine slightly aggressive during courtship but if I were to remove something so minor like his dissociative identity disorder, I would totally date him. You get two guys for the price of one! Perhaps a bit morally disturbing but the taste of both worlds nevertheless. Remember to "flip it around for variety".
And let´s not discount the universally acclaimed -Looking at the glass half full or half empty-, ok that´s a difficult one... How do you meet this one half way? If you have any ideas, please let me know, Im not very good at math to begin with! I guess technically, the glass is always full and Im getting pretty thirsty now so Im gonna go....
