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Abbas Kiarostami’s *Like Someone in Love* is a subtle yet profound exploration of identity, deception, and emotional isolation. Through its restrained narrative, the film delves into the psychological complexities of its characters, particularly Akiko, a young escort, and Takashi, an elderly professor.
Akiko’s detachment from her own life—performing roles for clients, her fiancé, and even her grandmother—reflects a deep-seated dissociation, a defense mechanism against emotional vulnerability. Her interactions are transactional, blurring the lines between authenticity and performance. Meanwhile, Takashi’s loneliness and paternal projection onto Akiko reveal his unconscious yearning for connection, masking his own existential void. 1 reply
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The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware. 0 reply
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