Trapped by Circumstance
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If peace lies in acceptance, then no one told the filmmaker Daniel SÃ¡nchez ArÃ©valo, whose first feature portrays repressed longing with been-there, done-that assurance.
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All of us need a little help finding our way sometimes.
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Many people are finding themselves cornered by a loquacious stranger, especially one whom theyâre paying.
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed.
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I'm unsure what good will come out of this whole incident. The problem is that when emotions run high, as they did here, people tend to spend more time fortifying their own positions rather than exploring new ones.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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You never know when disaster will strike.
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Parents put their lives on hold, and dig deep into their pockets.
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"You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need."
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This strange, beautiful play by Jorge Ignacio CortiÃ±as is set in that hazy place between the person you are and the person you want to be, or could be, or are in danger of becoming.
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PHOENIX - The Storm must be wondering what more can happen to them. For the second time this week, an unavoidable life predicament has challenged their strength.
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These stocks are all trapped, like in a bottle.
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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Seldom has someone insisted on privacy more while behaving in ways that guaranteed him less. There are places we&#39;re not supposed to go, but we&#39;re continually being dragged
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The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress.
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Ask yourself whether you live on the brink of financial disaster.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.