{"id":2553,"date":"2017-02-03T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2017-05-06T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T22:15:36","slug":"time-uncertainty-need-catharsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Catharsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2554\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2554\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie-220x314.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion-the-movie.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oscar Pick for 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is the time for viewing Oscar screeners before voting. With few exceptions, I find less and less films I wish to see, let alone hail for an Oscar. So far, the best (in my opinion) is <em>Lion<\/em>, a moving film set in Calcutta and Australia, about a lost child adopted by Australian parents and years later, returns to India seeking home. From what I\u2019ve seen so far, this film deserves Best Picture, but this may not mean it will win. I am simply grateful that this film was made. Many good screenplays\u00a0 with heart and soul do not make the cut and are never seen.<\/p>\n<p>This is a time of uncertainty \u2013 both personally and collectively, so negative, violent,\u00a0 or cynical stories sell much easier. It is the times. I loved <em>Lion<\/em> because, though the details of the protagonist\u2019s life are not my own, I could relate to the longing to come home, and with the emotional intensity, a sense of catharsis was set in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Catharsis means \u2018cleansing\u2019 in Greek. \u201cA Catharsis is an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress.\u201d \u00a0If ever we needed catharsis, it is now.<\/p>\n<p>To close, I offer this excerpt from Margaret Atwood\u2019s essay, <em>Creative Reconstruction <\/em>(<em>The Nation, <\/em>Feb 2017):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs once-solid certainties crumble, it may be enough to create alternate worlds that offer both temporary escapes and moments of insight; to open windows in the given world that allow us to see outside it. Throughout history, it has been hope for artistic work that expresses, for this time and place, as powerfully and eloquently as possible, what it is to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writers, Artists, journey deep within and return to create catharsis for the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Find the Lion within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2555 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"164\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time for viewing Oscar screeners before voting. With few exceptions, I find less and less films I wish to see, let alone hail for an Oscar. So far, the best (in my opinion) is Lion, a moving film set in Calcutta and Australia, about a lost child adopted by Australian parents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-ann-jones","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}