An affecting portrait of broken dreams and regret, hope and despair, rediscovery and renewal, Beautiful Maria ties up
the loose ends of a love story that died with Nestor in The Mambo Kings, but is still very much alive in the heart and soul of his song, «Beautiful Maria.»
Not exact matches
Their is no success in life if in the
end we have failed to build
loving relationships.Is it any wonder this is the subject we wish to speak
of when we are relfecting on our life as we are about to
loose it?
It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom
of creation as part
of the works and
ends of divine
love, or to argue that the highest good
of the creature — divinizing union with God in
love — requires a realm
of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills
of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations
of how sin and death have been set
loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.
And you can get caught holding one
end of a
love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone, your brother's body spoiled and cold, your infant dead, and you dying; you reel out
love's long line alone, stripped like a live wire
loosing its sparks to a cloud, like a live wire
loosed in space to longing and grief everlasting [pp. 42 - 43].
«If you went to the 1950s version
of this movie Michael Shannon would be the star and the creature carrying the woman at the
end of the movie would be a scene
of horror, and here is an image
of love, so the complexities are kind
of flipped,» del Toro says, letting
loose a minor spoiler for a film that has PR teams urging critics and writers not to divulge major secrets.
The story
of a young man who travels to Italy in order to escape his dead
end life and ailing mother only to fall in
love with a mysterious sexy stranger who approaches him at a waterside cafe plays fast and
loose with quite a few genres but never fails to remain grounded.