The final set-piece is the boy trying to climb out of the trap of "terrible people doing terrible things to each other", and the whole power of that scene depends on the awful slowness of it, you can almost feel the drag on him of the reality he is trying to leave behind, it's so slow, so difficult to escape the trap one finds oneself in, everything depends on continuing the march away and out, no matter how thick the molasses of karma, how crushingly relentless the gravity of samsara...
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Date: 2010-06-20 04:43 pm (UTC)