Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs
Well what’s wrong with that ?
I’d like to know
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As I listen to Elephant Love Medley, a beautiful duet by Nicole Kidman and Evan McGregor, which I loved and still love, its lyrics are in so much contrast with the below quotes from “Synedoche, New York”, a beautiful nihilistic movie with a strong taste of memento mori. But for me, they don’t cancel each other’s effects. Strangely enough, they complement each other very well.
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“Everyone is disappointing when you know someone.
Look at the night table for a note from Adele.
Stare out the window.
Remember the time she got you to pose for one of her paintings? How she told you how beautiful you were? How she made you feel pretty again for a little while? Think how you’ll miss her.
Stand up.
Now it is waiting, and nobody cares.
And when your wait is over, this room will still exist…
…and it will continue to hold shoes and dresses and boxes…
…and maybe someday another waiting person.
And maybe not. The room doesn’t care either.
Hello?
There’s nobody running the elevator anymore.
What was once before you, an exciting and mysterious future…
…is now behind you, lived, understood, disappointing.
You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence
and are now slipping silently out of it.
This is everyone’s experience.
Every single one.
The specifics hardly matter.
Everyone is everyone.
So you are Adele…
…Hazel, Claire, Olive.
You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours. All her loneliness. The gray, straw-like hair. Her red, raw hands. It’s yours.
It is time for you to understand this.
Walk.
As the people who adore you stop adoring you…
…as they die, as they move on…
…as you shed them, as you shed
your beauty, your youth…
…as the world forgets you,
as you recognize your transience…
…as you begin to lose
your characteristics one by one…
…as you learn
there is no one watching you…
…and there never was,
you think only about driving.
Not coming from anyplace,
not arriving anyplace…
…just driving, counting off time.”
Agrael's words 