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@JohnPhilpin Looks like a terrific film. Unfortunately I don't speak the language & they don't include subtitles in these films. I think he said, "I'm mad as hell & I'm not gonna take it any longer." Am I close? Was it Thatcher he was mad at?
@Ron it’s a great film set to the backdrop of the coal mines being shut down yes by Margaret Thatcher , I would hope you can get a DVD with English subtitles at least, my mother in law is very hard of hearing so am use to ensuring we can get subtitles but Amazon is pretty unhelpful in its details in this regard, a couple of searches seem to suggest that subtitles are available for this film
@AndySylvester Absolutely it does but it can come from so many places in so many ways (see @patrickrhone's thought on the wind.) But the silence is just as musical, just as spiritual and that link for "The Sound of Silence" is wonderful.
Thanks for posting.
@colinwalker My dear friend and mentor Ando writes mostly about silence and it's importance. My message about the wind arose out of her Quiet Notes spiritual journalling course I’m a participant in.
@colinwalker Thanks Colin. I'm glad you enjiyed my Sound of Silence. It was the very first piece I ever published as a writer and one of the most popular. It was a very pure statement made by the orchestra that night. The entire audience was in an excited, positive state of peace at the end. I believe there is a video of a performance by Abbado with an even longer conducted silence at the end. It might be this one, but it's not available to be viewed in the US. Sigh.
@AndySylvester Awww, thanks again. Maybe I'll make a list of my classics. Ha ha. Maybe a new one on the way soon. 😉
@Ron It was such an evocative piece - the notion that orchestra and audience were, for that brief period, joined in the performance of silence is joyous and the reader is drawn in and can almost hear the gasps as everyone remembers to breathe. Marvellous!