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When Art Imitates Life

12/8/2014

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At times, synchronicity can be annoying.  The Universe really likes to drive its message home with me, and there’s no escaping it though I try.  Quite often I find art imitates life as themes seem to bang me over the head until I deal with them or understand what I need to.

One night, I decided to escape the overwhelming metaphysical work I was doing by watching a movie on Netflix.  I found The House of the Spirits which stars Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave.  With an all-star cast like that, how could I go wrong?  The misleading Netflix blurb states, “Esteban vows to marry Rosa, a rich man's daughter. But when Rosa dies before he can save enough money to do so, he instead marries her younger sister.”  What that blurb conveniently left out was the significance behind the “spirits” part of the title.  The younger sister (played as an adult by Glenn Close) is a metaphysically gifted woman who has premonitions and mediumship abilities.  The movie was really excellent, but in trying to escape my metaphysical life, I found myself thrown right back into it again.

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On another evening during my divorce, I decided to watch Crazy, Stupid, Love starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, and Kevin Bacon:  Another film with an all-star cast that I thought would be a chick flick that would give me an escape from reality.  Here at least the Netflix blurb was somewhat accurate as it states, “A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.”  What the movie description failed to mention is that Steve Carell and Julianne Moore’s characters were high school sweethearts as my ex-husband and I were.  From there, numerous other parallels kept popping up related to the issues we’d faced in our marriage and divorce.  It was far from the sexy escape movie I was hoping for!

When there’s a lesson we need to learn in our lives, sometimes the Universe will take synchronicity into its hands to get us to pay attention.  Seemingly random choices such as movies we select to watch can end up helping us to work through the big picture issues.

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