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 Into Great Silence (Two-Disc Set) $29.99 "Silence is God's first language." You will see this quotation from St. John of the Cross on the phamplette in the CD case. The director made a wrong choice in that he used God's language instead of human's. Shortly, this film is as much superficial as the silence itself which surrounds the monastery physically. Silence in itself is nothing. It's just like a vacuum. I understand the intention of the director, but his intention is not supported by normal human psychology. It only brings irritation to the audience. Maybe he wanted his film to be interpreted in many different ways by them. But it's his own thinking. His own interpretation omitted the medium through which we can access to his intention. Foremost, he wasted the precious time, which relates with the fact that monks do waste time in their monastery. When the director intermittently showed the faces of the monks, I thought that I was looking at the prisoners. Paradoxically, they are actually prisoners of love for God. If these are what the director aimed at, it's a great success. But it's not an appropriate and conscientious way of sharing his experience in the monastery for six months with other people who want to know the depths and reasons of the life of the monks. If this is a documentary which appeals only to our heart and soul, not to intellect, then it is not a documentary at all. It's just a propaganda for Catholic Church. In my thought, through this film, Carthusian orders will lose many vocations. His approach too much idealise monks lives and separate from the secular world. But they are only an extension of any other monasteries practicing looser rules than Carthusians. The only thing I was surprised at was that I mistook the ear of the monk on the first scene for a wound in Jesus' heart. What would Thomas Merton (who was tempted to join this Order) say if he is alive and see this film? He'll be very much disappointed, I think. German people are sometimes too philosophical.  Turning Three Shots Into Two $19.95 Moretti's Book is a clear, detailed approach to the shortgame and you don't have to be a Rocket Scientist to understand it. It is extremely well written and I guarantee it will help any level of golfer improve his short game. Along with reading the book I can also offer firsthand testimony that the man knows what he's talking about,since I recently attended his Academy of Golf Dynamics School. I've witnessed his shortgame concepts firsthand. Take the advice of a Golf Instruction Nut and Buy This Book. You won't regret the purchase.  PYLE PLV2 1 Into 4 Mobile Video Signal Distribution Amplifier $32.99 Hey - it's a great NTSC buffer amplifier - does what it says - but it does much more. If you ever need to fan out that digital audio signal (the RCA or fiber - in this case only the rca connector works), well guess what - it looks like a video signal enough that this device will fan out the audio to multiple displays. I'm not going to go into the electronics behind it but basically the audio signal fits inside the width of a video signal. All this device does is make 4 isolated coppies of one input signal to redistribute. Works fine for digital ac3 audio just like digital. Only problem is you need 12 volts - if you have a pc nearby you can get 12 volts to run it from the pc's power supply - for me i'm replicating my pc's digital audio out to multiple sources so it was a no brainer. neat undocumented use for a plain jane product! |
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