Exploring Film Technique
During class we watched a few films that had some very cool
spiritual parallels. One of them was a
short animation clip of an elderly rabbit baking. While mixing the batter, a moth comes appears
and begins disrupting what was a peaceful task.
Of course, as most moths are, it is attracted to the light and begins
hitting itself against the bulb repeatedly.
It also begins flying around the house bumping into walls and
pictures. I didn’t realize that the
rabbit was probably a widow when one of the pictures was of two rabbits getting
married. Eventually the rabbit has had
enough and gets very frustrated, climaxing with the moth being thrown into the
oven with the dish. The story ends when
the rabbit wakes from a nap and proceeds to enter into the oven with the
newborn moth, symbolizing freedom and rest.
I like that baking was used as part of her the rabbit’s coping
process. I find that in my faith in God
I have had many situations where I was healed through talents God had gifted me
or someone else with. I am rarely healed
by instantaneous “miracles,” but rather through giftings of others. The rabbit was similarly able to cope through
her own gifting.
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