Deepest Knowledge, Greatest Heart, and Beyond

duveyoung

I just saw Smoke Signals again yesterday on the Fourth of July. I'm hoping that my intent to see it on the 4th every year from now on is realized. This film is as good as any scripture, and it has the deepest knowledge of reality possible. It gives us silence first, poetry second, and a soaring spirit always.

I'm wondering if anyone else has this view of the film.

Obviously the film is loved by millions, but I wonder: "Is the film merely an affair of the heart to most in the audience? How many see, that intellectually, the film is as valid for its philosophical depth?" It reaches not only into the marrow of the indigenous bone but shows us all to have the same spiritual core. The message is not "I am indigenous, hear me roar, see my pride, feel my soul, know my journey." It is "We are. Our story is. Everything is sacred. There is no other. The loudest laugh is a silence shared across a table after a knock."

Obviously I'm dangerously bonkers from a narcotic obsession with this film's encapsulation of the Way of all paths.

score 10/10

duveyoung 5 July 2005

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1119156/