It is a good thing that Sam Shepherd is not all washed up from the mud in his career.
He plays a stunning role as father to Mud!
Fatherless boys who have no roots in the instinctive world (mud) often make division and tragedy rather than paradox.
The way Sam saved his son Mud in the end with the staged death in the muddy waters was a paradox given their earlier confrontation in the light of day.
What also seemed a paradox to me was Mud's clean white shirt contrasting his muddy surroundings??
It was the same paradox I felt when viewing that 1968 classic film "The River Boy" by Noel Black which won the Venice International Film Festival.
"The River Boy" also was a paradox in his white mail ordered suit that did not fit.
The suit did not fit, nor did his parents or the girl of his dreams
Times have not changed since 1968 in regards to children growing up to re capitulate deficiencies they experienced as children in their adult lives.
There is nothing new about the repetition compulsion of children turned adolescents who are compelled to seek dry rivered relationships ( the boat caught up on the branches of a tree played by Reese Witherspoon) and expecting to get water.
This time I know this mate will be the mother or father I never had or the mother or father who never saw or heard me.
And yes this time Mud's father did see and hear him and it was in the mud!
We need more of these muddy knights who wear white shirts and ill fitting clothes without armor to both generate and protect life.
He plays a stunning role as father to Mud!
Fatherless boys who have no roots in the instinctive world (mud) often make division and tragedy rather than paradox.
The way Sam saved his son Mud in the end with the staged death in the muddy waters was a paradox given their earlier confrontation in the light of day.
What also seemed a paradox to me was Mud's clean white shirt contrasting his muddy surroundings??
It was the same paradox I felt when viewing that 1968 classic film "The River Boy" by Noel Black which won the Venice International Film Festival.
"The River Boy" also was a paradox in his white mail ordered suit that did not fit.
The suit did not fit, nor did his parents or the girl of his dreams
Times have not changed since 1968 in regards to children growing up to re capitulate deficiencies they experienced as children in their adult lives.
There is nothing new about the repetition compulsion of children turned adolescents who are compelled to seek dry rivered relationships ( the boat caught up on the branches of a tree played by Reese Witherspoon) and expecting to get water.
This time I know this mate will be the mother or father I never had or the mother or father who never saw or heard me.
And yes this time Mud's father did see and hear him and it was in the mud!
We need more of these muddy knights who wear white shirts and ill fitting clothes without armor to both generate and protect life.