Burden of Dreams

"Filmmaking is the ability to articulate dreams..." That is the most beautiful description of a difficult and often misunderstood art.

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Absolutely. I'm not sure what these city dwellers here are talking about. He neither needs nor wants to control it, but is looking at nature far more accurately, honestly and truthfully than these judgmental, clueless, sentimental moderns commenting here do. His honesty is what is so compelling about him. Nature is not about murder? Think again. Relentless murder. Every minute.

overwhelming and collective murder

He can talk a lot can't he?!?!!

He's talking about the burden of dreams, which can be your life if you elect it. That's the thing with life, it can take any form. To me, he makes sense only as someone confused, someone obsessed. He believes that he loves what he hates, and he hates because what he perceives is not what he would have preferred for it to be. The jungle has no structure to him, it is chaos, but he sees a vision in it, a challenge which he believes is enough to break him.

It's clear, at least in his telling, the jungle and life is a mistress he cannot find strength in himself to love. The need for order and control is so crushing in Europeans. Maybe that's the real lesson, we'll never get over the isthmus. Isn't that what he is saying, no pleasure, no accolade will have the boat top the hill. It's tragic but it must have been his comported view, the statement, to have it this way. He's an artist, an actor. The documentary points us to that conclusion.

@EntropyHaptens
It is strange. I used to think that dreams were something to live for, I was miserable. Today I am convinced that dreaming is our minds way to point our attention at internal conflicts, confusion. They show us the things we find absurd or out of reach and beg us to reconcile with reality. It is no wonder that there was a saying of how a real Buddhist monk would need no more than four hours of sleep each night. Where there is harmony, restless dreams are put quietly to sleep.

ahhhh!!! i knew something felt familiar. great observation!