Guest guest Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Namah Shivayah, Went to see the film in Boston yesterday afternoon, and we were so blown away, that we walked back outside to the box office and bought two more tickets and watched it a second time! While this film may not really hit home for someone who does not know Amma....it is a visual poem for her devotees. I feel like the film-maker really captured the fierce power and beauty that is our Amma. The slow-motion shots in particular, really bowled me over. It is really a precious experience to watch Mother in slow motion like that.. One can't help but realize that they are looking at God manifest in a human body. There was also something very statuesque about Amma in this film...as if she were a 15 foot tall sculpture of a Goddess that sprung to life, jumped off her base and was now interacting in the world of Maya. Like I said, the way it was filmed truly was poetry....and brings many, many thoughts and realizations to mind. Lots of visual metaphor as well....and some of the most breathtaking scenes I have seen since Baraka. I also felt that Amma's Kali aspect was captured very well in this film. I have to wonder what Jan Kounen's relationship is to Kali, if any...because he seems to have captured that particular aspect of Amma's shakti many, many times in certain sequences. This was a pleasant suprise to me, since I have a strong relationship with this aspect/bhava of Amma. It went waaaaaaaaay beyond the aspect of "Amma the hugging saint". I want to say that it visually scratched the surface of the depths of her. This was very touching to me to see Amma in this way, because it is how I know her in my heart. Amma has said in the past that if she were to remove all of her veils and show herself to us as she truly is...we would not be able to withstand it. Like I said, someone who does not know of Amma may walk away from this film even more baffled as to what she stands for and who she is. There was not much biographical information, talk of her charitable institutions or deeper explanations as to what darshan is and how it came about. This was more of a gift for devotees....Amma rendered in a visual poem. I also liked that Amma was not shown as frequently as I would have hoped for. It gave a feeling of anticipation to the film. Very much like it is in real life when we are waiting for a glimpse of Amma! Then...when the glimpse came....it was so beautiful and stunning it was almost unbearable. At the end of the film, when she was filmed in slow-motion walking through the crowd, I cried and cried. Shakti was just bubbling up, over and out of the screen. I actually felt like I had spent time with Amma. I wrote a little more extensively about the film on my website. How lucky we all are! It is incomprehensible to the mind how lucky we all really are and the magnitude of what we are participating in. Jai Ma! Jai Ma! Ananthasree http://www.ananthasree.com Ammachi, Sweta Mitzel <swetabc wrote: > > Om Namah Shivaya, > > At the MA Center last night, 3 devotees gave good reviews of Darshan, The Embrace. One devotee said it was really something to see Amma on the big screen, & that she could just feel the shakti coming from it. She loved it. > > The team of 2 counselors with whom I work M-Th, plus possibly our manager, are going from Santa Cruz to Berkeley tomorrow to see the 5:10PM show. We're calling it a team building experience. Amma's picture is now displayed in all 3 of the day rehab's counseling offices. Seems She's infiltratng it. Will anyone else be there? > > Sweta > > > > How low will we go? Check out Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 i have not seen the film yet, but through your words i can feel Amma's blessings. thank you; we are born to bless! Ammachi, "Ananthasree" <ananthasree wrote: > > Namah Shivayah, > > Went to see the film in Boston yesterday afternoon, and we were so blown away, that we > walked back outside to the box office and bought two more tickets and watched it a > second time! > > While this film may not really hit home for someone who does not know Amma...it is a > visual poem for her devotees. I feel like the film-maker really captured the fierce power > and beauty that is our Amma. The slow-motion shots in particular, really bowled me over. > It is really a precious experience to watch Mother in slow motion like that. One can't help > but realize that they are looking at God manifest in a human body. There was also > something very statuesque about Amma in this film...as if she were a 15 foot tall sculpture > of a Goddess that sprung to life, jumped off her base and was now interacting in the world > of Maya. Like I said, the way it was filmed truly was poetry....and brings many, many > thoughts and realizations to mind. Lots of visual metaphor as well....and some of the most > breathtaking scenes I have seen since Baraka. > > I also felt that Amma's Kali aspect was captured very well in this film. I have to wonder > what Jan Kounen's relationship is to Kali, if any...because he seems to have captured that > particular aspect of Amma's shakti many, many times in certain sequences. This was a > pleasant suprise to me, since I have a strong relationship with this aspect/bhava of Amma. > It went waaaaaaaaay beyond the aspect of "Amma the hugging saint". I want to say that it > visually scratched the surface of the depths of her. This was very touching to me to see > Amma in this way, because it is how I know her in my heart. Amma has said in the past > that if she were to remove all of her veils and show herself to us as she truly is...we would > not be able to withstand it. > > Like I said, someone who does not know of Amma may walk away from this film even > more baffled as to what she stands for and who she is. There was not much biographical > information, talk of her charitable institutions or deeper explanations as to what darshan > is and how it came about. This was more of a gift for devotees....Amma rendered in a > visual poem. > > I also liked that Amma was not shown as frequently as I would have hoped for. It gave a > feeling of anticipation to the film. Very much like it is in real life when we are waiting for a > glimpse of Amma! Then...when the glimpse came....it was so beautiful and stunning it was > almost unbearable. At the end of the film, when she was filmed in slow-motion walking > through the crowd, I cried and cried. Shakti was just bubbling up, over and out of the > screen. I actually felt like I had spent time with Amma. > > I wrote a little more extensively about the film on my website. > > How lucky we all are! It is incomprehensible to the mind how lucky we all really are and the > magnitude of what we are participating in. > > Jai Ma! Jai Ma! > > Ananthasree > > http://www.ananthasree.com > > > > > > > > > > > Ammachi, Sweta Mitzel <swetabc@> wrote: > > > > Om Namah Shivaya, > > > > At the MA Center last night, 3 devotees gave good reviews of Darshan, The Embrace. > One devotee said it was really something to see Amma on the big screen, & that she could > just feel the shakti coming from it. She loved it. > > > > The team of 2 counselors with whom I work M-Th, plus possibly our manager, are going > from Santa Cruz to Berkeley tomorrow to see the 5:10PM show. We're calling it a team > building experience. Amma's picture is now displayed in all 3 of the day rehab's > counseling offices. Seems She's infiltratng it. Will anyone else be there? > > > > Sweta > > > > > > > > How low will we go? Check out Messenger's low PC-to- Phone call rates. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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