He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy... You may tear apart the
baby's
rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest
man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest
men that ever lived, could tear apart... It is all real!
Consider the reunion sequence in Punch - Drunk Love that finds Shelley Duvall singing Harry Nilsson on the soundtrack while Anderson rocks the camera like a
baby in a cradle, or the wordless opening sequence of There Will Be Blood, with Jonny Greenwood's terrifying, Kubrick - ian Dawn of
Man overture
rattling the soundscape.