I was reminded of the "nuggets of wisdom" within this talk and so FEEL it is utterly and totally relevant to current events. I hope you find inspiration as well. Because of when it was given, I realize it's not about trying to return to those times, rather harnessing the WISDOM and re-writing a more harmonious script for our global culture/s, worlds, futures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PE_gOnCDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pjx4BrA7rI (with lyrics)
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When you really are yourself,
nothing can go wrong.
No matter what you take,
you will never be you,
if you follow the rules.
Can't you see that you are not the only one
(Break it, break your social system)
Got you give it up to change it all
(Break it, break your social system)See you at the club,
holding on to your old life,
as if it is was golden years of joy.
Wish you understood,
you are really free.
No matter what you take,
you never be you,
if you follow the rules.
Cant you see that you are not the only one.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you're not the only one]
Got to give it up to change it all.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you've got to change it all]
Cant you see that you are not the only one.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you're not the only one]
Got to give it up to change it all.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you got to change it all](Break it, break your social system)
+ [change it all][Babe, you got to change it all]
(Break it, break your social system)
+ [change it all][Babe, you got to change it all]
In a strange, dark box lives a group of box-headed elderly humanoid creatures with roots instead of legs. Most of these creatures are sunken into a catatonic sleep, unaware of anything outside their hermetic, sealed-off world.
But one of them emerges from the crowd, stunned into consciousness. Young and growing, the creature starts to cause a joyful ruckus, but struggles against the disapproval and rancor of the rest of his box-dwellers. But then the youngster begins to fight back, looking for a way outside the box but coming against its most oppressive forces yet.
Writer/director/animator Dusan Kastelic's short animation is a surreal yet exuberant allegory about the pleasures and perils of non-conformity, being an individual and pushing through obstacles to a new level of consciousness.
The narrative takes the phrase "outside the box" and spins it into a deeply imaginative, hypnotic narrative that resembles a fairy tale. Not a sanitized children's version of a fairy tale, however: the film instead resembles the original European fairy stories, which were dark, psychologically complex and disquieting in their emotional violence.
The images are nightmarish, with their evocations of distorted flesh and murky colors. But the expressiveness of the creatures and attention to detail -- created in open-source 3-D software Blender -- are remarkable from a technical and emotional level, and draw in viewers with a powerful combination of gesture, sound and storytelling.
Despite the claustrophobic world portrayed in the film, there are splashes of zany humor and joy, particularly as the younger creature expresses its unbridled childlike self. The musical score and sound design by Mateja Staric go a long way to create contrast between stultifying conformity and youthful individualism, as well as keeping the narrative at a consistently engaging pace.
Despite its strange appearance, the uninhibited joyousness and high spirits of the newly emergent creature are so much like the energy of children, and viewers cannot help but relate. Yet "The Box" becomes genuinely sad and painful as the youngster is repeatedly brought down and cut down to size, and confronts the mechanisms of the box itself that keep its inhabitants docile and in the dark.
Watching that struggle becomes a powerful metaphor for the oppression and conformity that we all face, whether it's the box that society puts us inside or the ones we put ourselves in. To watch the creature struggle against a dark, narrow world is hard, and yet, as the creature discovers, as long as you can feel a spark of an essential self, there is always a way towards the light.
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