It's uncivilized, uncouth, and will never help our kids understand that eating is
a more sacred act than shoving it in as fast as you can.
As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the
act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be
more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the
act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an
act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the
sacred.
Tye Sheridan's performance as the lead boy, Ellis, who just wants to trust that love is a
sacred emotion only to be disappointed by everyone around him, is a wonder, and one of the
more memorable child
acting performances we've seen in some time.