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"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad." -Morpheus, The Matrix
This isn't a movie review list and it's not comprehensive. It's just some notes about a few movies I think are useful for the purposes of awakening and why, or that aren't and why not. With tools of understanding, bad is often better than good.
Major themes represented on this list seem to be these:
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- Heresy
- Captive/Captor
- Teacher/Student
- Nature of self/man
- Death/rebirth
- Cataclysm/epiphany
- Untrustworthiness of mind/memories
The only thing I might advise with regard to movies and books is to raise the material up to the level where it becomes of value to you. Orwell might have been writing an anti-communist manifesto, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is much more interesting viewed as the struggle between man and his confinement. Apocalypse Now is about something more than Viet Nam, How to Get Ahead In Advertising is about something more than rampant commercialism, etc.
::: American Beauty
"I feel like I've been in a coma for the past
twenty years. And I'm just now waking up."
I've included American Beauty mainly for what's wrong with it. Lester's major death/rebirth transition shows promise, but what does he transition to? Backward to teenage crap, not forward in any sense. A fear-based regression. Stupid car, stupid drugs, stupid vanity, stupid skirt chasing. Not at all redeemed when Lester sees his own folly near the end or by sappy/smarmy dead guy voice-over.
The movie is slightly redeemed by the presence of the quasi-mystical neighbor kid and his video footage of a windblown bag:
"That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever."
::: Apocalypse Now
"In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action what is often called ruthless what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it."
You'd think that Apocalypse Now Redux, the director's cut, would be the version to watch, but all the stuff that was rightly cut from the original has been wrongly replaced. (Raising the interesting point that directors and authors often don't understand the higher applications of the stories they're telling.) Stick with the original over both Redux and Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now is all about the Horror. A journey of discovery, into the heart of darkness, arriving at this horror. What's the horror? How do you get there? Why would anyone make such a journey? Should you make such a journey? Why or why not?
Note the powerful epiphanies that drive the film. The first assassin's letter home, ("Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids..."), Dennis Hopper's youthful exuberance, Kurtz's diamond bullet, Willard's "...I wasn't even in their army any more."
::: Being There
"Spring, summer, autumn, winter... then spring again."
A lovely film ruined by a foolish walking-on-water stunt tacked on to the end. Without that nonsense the viewer would be free to think, to decide, to wonder. Instead, the movie zips itself up tight with its clever little dumb-it-down twist. Hit the stop button when Chauncey is straightening the sapling, before the ruinous denouement, and it's a fun, lovely film.
::: Blade Runner
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."
Were you born five minutes ago? Of course not, and you have the memories to prove it. You'd know if they were artificial implants, because, uh...
::: Cast Away
"I couldn't even kill myself the way I
wanted to. I had power over nothing."
If a man screams on a deserted island and there's no one to hear him, does he make a sound? Is it enough that he hears it himself? What if not? What's left when you take away everything?
Self stripped bare.
This movie raises many intriguing questions about the substance of self, or lack thereof, and includes a very Zen eulogy.
::: Dead Poets Society
Heresy.
::: Harold and Maude
"Vice, virtue. It's best not to be
too moral... Aim above morality."
American Zen, master and disciple.
::: Harvey
"For years I was smart... I recommend pleasant."
Elwood P. Dowd, wisefool. A sweet depiction of a higher order of being misinterpreted as a lower order of being. Would we know the Superior Man when we saw him?
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"Everything I do now makes perfect sense."
A thwarted bid for freedom. A failed attempt to overthrow Maya. Enjoy the insanity of the epiphany.
::: Joe vs the Volcano
"Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and
we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?"
Death and Rebirth. Unlike American Beauty, this is all about moving forward, "away from the things of man."
::: Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
Watch especially for the visual poem of a man crumbling a human brain into a sink while looking for the soul.
::: The Matrix
"Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind."
Plato's Cave for the people. As allegorically lucid as Joe vs Vocano, Pleasantville and Star Wars.
::: Monty Python's Life of Brian
"No, no! It is a sign that, like Him, we must think not
of the things of the body, but of the face and head!"
Sacred Cow-tipping at its best.
"Meaning of Life" also belongs on this list.
::: Nineteen Eighty-Four
"If you want a vision of the future, Winston,
imagine a boot stamping on a human faceforever."
This movie is unique in the sense that it's as good as the book, which is an extremely intimate portrait of the captor/captive, Maya/man relationship. Compare this to Moby-Dick or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which are superb books but useless movies.
::: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
As with Moby-Dick, Hollywood castrated the book. They stripped it of its archetypal dimensions and reduced it to a meaningless pissing match between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. Great entertainment, but for meaningful insight, read the book.
::: Pleasantville
"There are some places where the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where it keeps on going."
A cheerful tale of heresy in which no one is burned at the stake and the new paradigm is, eventually, embraced by all.
::: The Razor's Edge
"The dead look so terribly dead."
The razor's edge is what makes it interesting; seeing Larry shakily balanced on the fine line between what he was and what he's becoming. He is walking the edge between two lives. The Bill Murray version is a bit unfocused... stick with Tyrone Power or read the book.
Maugham supposedly used Ramana Maharshi as the model for the novel's holy man.
::: Star Wars
"The force will be with you, always."
The first one, where Luke makes the transition from flesh to spirit.
The Hero's Journey.
::: The Thin Red Line
"Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's
a part of, all faces are the same man."
A sublime inquiry into the spiritual nature of man. More a sad/sweet song than a narrative film.
::: The Thirteenth Floor
"So what're you saying? You're saying
that there's another world on top of this one?"
Layer after layer. Turtles on top of turtles.
::: Vanilla Sky/Abre Los Ojos
"Open your eyes."
If you like Vanilla Sky, check out the original, the Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). These two films may be the best of the bunch for our purposes; the closest to an enlightenment allegory.
Of course, the interesting thing about enlightenment is getting there, not being there, and that's what these films are about; awakening from a false reality, opening your eyes. They're not so much about what's real as what's not.
It's the story of the journey one takes to get to the place where anything, even jumping off a tall building, would be better than continuing to live a lie, even a beautiful, blissful lie.
Note the presence of the true guru, explaining in clear terms why leaping off the building is the best thing to do, and waiting patiently for it to be done.
::: Waking Life
"They say that dreams are only real as long as
they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"
Wide-ranging philosophical inquiry. Provocative. Amusing. Potentially disruptive.
::: Wings of Desire
"When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin and where does space end?"
A lovely, intelligent, thought-provoking film. Can the awakened being return to the dreamstate? Would he want to?
::: Others
Some other films that reward thoughtful viewing are The Wizard of Oz, About Schmidt, What Dreams May Come, Total Recall, All the Mornings Of the World (Tous les Matins du Monde), and, of course, many more.
Spirituality: Enlightening CinemaAs a self employed Human Resources (HR) practitioner with 15 years experience, I was recently advised by a business owner that they would never use HR as there was no value in it. Well I trotted out the usual arguments about 'preventing employment disputes', and 'your most expensive cost centre'. But there were adamant, they could not see the value in using an HR professional.
Well, as a committed HR professional (and Scottish born Red-head to boot), I was not going to rest until I had proven to them the value of HR. And that is how the following analogy came about.
Staff are like cars:
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1. You need to pick the right model - the sports car looks very pretty, but isn't much good if you need to tow the trailer
2. You need to steer them in the right direction otherwise they go off track, and ultimately are liable to crash
3. You need to service them regularly, or performance will deteriorate
4. A specialist mechanic (or HR Manager) will have much greater success at fixing issues properly than the enthusiastic DIY'er
5. Trade-ins can be very costly if you haven't done steps one to four properly
It is true that the wage spend is the single biggest cost centre in virtually any business. Therefore, HR professionals can have a major impact on the bottom line of the company simply by ensuring that the right models are picked, the steering mechanisms are effective, and the servicing is done properly.
One of the most significant ways HR can impact the bottom line and help keep the momentum going to get out of the recession is through focusing on productivity. Based on international studies, there are seven key drivers of workplace productivity:
1. Building Leadership and Management
2. Creating Productive Workplace Cultures
3. Encouraging Innovation and the Use of Technology
4. Investing in People and Skills
5. Organising Work
6. Networking and Collaboration
7. Measuring What Matters
Well just in case you hadn't spotted it, there is only one thing on that list, Encouraging Innovation and the Use of Technology, which is not under the direct influence of HR.
1. Building Leadership and Management
HR has significant impact in this area by:
o Ensuring that you have correctly defined the competencies required for the leadership roles in your business
o Ensuring that the leaders have the tools necessary to do their jobs effectively.
Whenever you start recruiting for a position, or are looking at how to increase an incumbent's effectiveness in a role, particularly a leadership position, you need to clearly understand the competencies required to do the job. For example, a Finance Manager needs the skills to do accounts, but also needs the competencies of Leadership; Delegation; Attention to detail; Ability to contribute to the strategic direction of the company etc.
All too often I see a great operative being promoted into a management position. As a manager it is very useful to have a good understanding of what your team do, but, ultimately, the role of a manager is to quite different. Managers are required to monitor everyone's progress, identify where the collective effort should be focused, steer everyone in the right direction etc. Unfortunately, this is out with the comfort zone of many operatives, and as a result they may have been a great operative, but are often only an average manager.
By 'defining the right model' up front then you will have a far great degree of success at selecting the right person through an interview process. You will also be able you to identify an individuals development needs (we all have them) to turn them from an average manager into an excellent leader.
2. Creating Productive Workplace Cultures
Bonus schemes to drive the right behaviour and Performance Appraisal system that are user-friendly and add perceptible value are major tools in creating productive workplace cultures.
Unfortunately bonus schemes are often not actually encouraging the behaviour which will create the desired outcome. For example, a bonus scheme that focus's purely on turnover, but ignores profitability will result in lots of sales, but often at discounted rates. You need to clearly understand what actually generates the desired results, and reward that. For example, customer service is rarely seen in bonus schemes, but more often than not excellent customer service is the key to retaining existing clients and getting their referred business.
I often hear managers describing Performance Appraisal systems as an onerous paperwork task, which just wastes their time. It is the job of HR to:
o Critically review any systems and eliminate any negative connotations
o Provide an easy to use, clearly value add, system
o Understand any underlying reasons behind why a system is not being used, and take action accordingly.
Frequently the 'problem' with the system has more to do with a manager's reluctance to have a 'courageous conversation'. Remove the fear through training and support, and you will often see a significant change in the outcomes.
A robust tailor-able Bonus scheme, easy to use Appraisal documentation, and 1 to 5 definitions of 20 different competencies are available to download from http://www.hrtoolkit.co.nz .
3. Encouraging Innovation and the Use of Technology
Though this may not be under the direct remit of HR we can certainly influence this by recruiting the right people and putting in place systems to encourage the right behaviour.
4. Investing in People and Skills
Supporting managers in doing this effectively is the basic fundamental function of any HR professional.
5. Organizing Work
The purpose of an organization structure is to enable communication flow and minimise cross-over between roles. Everyone within an organization needs clearly defined roles, and clear delineation around when tasks pass from one person to the next.
Duplication of work has a significant impact on productivity. Therefore, if the delineation between roles if not clear, you end up with two people repeating the same task which wastes time and decreases productivity.
The actual cost of such duplication can very quickly add up:
5 minutes per day X 5 days X 52 weeks = 1,300 minutes per year (21.7 hours)
6. Networking and Collaboration
Providing opportunities to network is not just the responsibility of the Social club, or the sales team. Training days can be a great opportunity to get representatives from different departments working together.
The opportunities for external networking and collaboration can also be influenced by HR through:
o Encouraging it through the appraisal systems,
o Defining jobs that include a requirement for networking, and not just for sales jobs,
o Creating a culture where you pay for staff to attend networking events, as opposed to criticising them for 'skiving off early' to attend such events.
7. Measuring What Matters
See comments above under section 2. This is absolutely critical to the success of any business.
So what is the value of HR?
HR is the difference between a group average employees filling in their day, and a group of enthusiastic, productive team members wanting to do the best for you and your business.
So help make sure the world keeps going the right way out of the recession by driving your productivity.
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