sacredlight

A friend recommended me to read "The sea, the sea", by Iris Murdoch so while I wait for the book to arrive I've watched the movie Iris.

The feeling I have is that it could have been a very beautiful movie if it had been more about her life and less about her Alzheimer disease. I mean, she seemed to be a very interesting and lucid woman, but most of the movie is just about how she lost her mind because of this disease. Pity they missed the chance to make a really interesting movie about a woman who says (in the movie):

"Every human soul have seen, perhaps even before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms: simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves."

And also:

"Human beings love each other... in sex, in friendship and when they're in love. And they cherish other beings... humans, animals, plants, even stones. The quest for happiness and the promotion of happiness is in all of this and the power of our imagination."

But that's in the first 10 minutes of what promises to be a beautiful movie but turns into a rather disappointing one. Too bad.