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Steve
at 08:54, 12 May 2005
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As a fan of your films i look forward to your the new one. The current hotbed of east west relations is of great interest to me. I noted that one of the characters was a surgeon. I myself am an alternative practioner and wonder if the differing beliefs in Western and Eastern medicine are noted in the film? These beliefs for me,that can be seen on a day to to day level inmedicine,
thateffect their own populations to a great extent, can be seen to transend the ideology and mindsets of these different cultures. With
Eastern/oriental medicine focusing on looking at the cause of the problem, whilst western medicine deals with the removal of symptons often making the body to suffer more,withwhichibelieve direct parallels can be drawn with George Bushes War on Terror!
love always your fan steve
p.s
whats next for you sally?
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sally potter
at 06:36, 13 May 2005
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The body that this film deals with is the emotional body. Specific details of difference between eastern and western approaches to medicine are not examined in the story (and "He' is from the Lebanon, itself a very specific part of the Middle East). "She' is a scientist, and her materialist approach to phenomena, always looking for what is measurable, is part of their argument, for his world view is - apparently - more metaphysical. But as the story develops, history, religion, and belief systems of all kinds start to merge and collide in unexpected ways. The cultural and psychic symptoms of a global malaise, manifesting as fear, hatred, and suspicion of difference (racial, religious and political) are what the characters are grappling with, each in his or her own way. Mutual respect and open, attentive listening to the details of the experience of the other seem to be the beginning of a possible 'cure' for this dangerous sickness.
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sally potter
at 06:44, 13 May 2005
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surgeon ps
as for your ps, i dont know yet.
my notebook is bursting, and i am yearning to sit at my table and see which of the ideas leaps out and demands to be heard first, but at the moment I am on the road with YES, and there are other voices to listen to, voices of an audience i have imagined during the long journey to the film's completion, and am now meeting.
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