The cave 2016 plus#
The real world parallels are well-known enough: author Donoghue looked at horrifying cases of women’s imprisonment and rape, such as the notorious Fritzl story in Austria as she wrote the book, while another, similar case emerged after it was released (the Ariel Castro kidnappings-that motherfucker was sent away for life plus 1000 years). For five years she has raised a child, Jack, in this small room, attempting to cope with her dehumanizing circumstances while making Jack’s strange, claustrophobic world as intelligible to him as possible. That, of course, is an awful lot of freight to put on one movie-especially a film that, for much of its duration, concerns only two actors interacting in a tiny space, one of whom was a seven or eight year old boy at the time of filming (albeit playing a five-year-old).Īgain, the facts are simple: Brie Larson plays Ma, a woman who has been detained for seven years after being kidnapped by a rapist psychopath and installed in a tiny shed for which only he, “Old Nick,” controls exit and entry. The truth is that the film pushes against the outer boundaries of what we understand about love, family, parenting, epistemology, and even the meaning of existence itself. But there is always a gap between facts and truth. Outside the cave, outside my soul, where a virgin gives birth to God, everything is shadow and ash, including the sluggish carriage of the body.Room is the adaptation of a popular novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue, with a screenplay written by the author herself and ably directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Within it even now you will And all your remaining strength, your unblemished beauty, and your unsold immortality. Lo, out of this cave deliverance will come to you. If only you would make this dim light burst into ablaze, and bring this blazing bonfire into my mind and into my heart.Ĭome to your senses, my soul, and fix your gaze on the little cave where the youthful virgin dwells. Here is your life- everything else is a sepulcher. Here is your salvation, my frightened soul. Since my peering the dim light has been growing brighter, and more and more clearly one can distinguish in it the wondrous face of a virgin-like a sunbeam arrayed in moonlight. The more deeply I peer into the light concealed within you, the more it seems to me to resemble your virginal beauty, your pristine beauty, my soul. Let us, though, empty ourselves through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, directing our activity and our movement toward the center of our lives, our heart, awaiting there the coming of Emmanuel, God with us.īehold, I see within you, my soul, a tiny nook, like a candle-illumined cave in a massive mountain overladen with darkness.
Most of us likely begin this lenten season very active, moving in circles around the edges of our lives. It is that place where we, like the Most-Holy Mother of God, can become the throne of the Living God. All of the externals of that fasting - abstaining and limiting our food and drink and other bodily pleasures - are put in place for no other reason than to help us discover the inner shrine and dwelling place of God within us. True fasting is a movement, a voluntary self- emptying, moving toward the space within us where Christ can be born. What does all of this have to do with fasting and, specifically, the Nativity Fast of 40 days leading up to Christmas? Simply this, that we are taught by the Church to make of these 40 days a movement toward that cave which is within each one of us, our heart. For what is our Christian life as it is defined in the scriptures and by the fathers except activity arriving at stillness, movement coming to rest, and labor giving way, at last, to peace? What we must see about this icon is that it is not only an image/icon of the birth of our Lord, but it is also an image/icon of our life in Him.
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