Dear Wen,
‘An older tradition’ is always a good place to start, and ‘ponder’ certainly has a watery aspect to it, though ‘charming the mind’ should, perhaps, be enchanting the mind…
It is clear that the ancients had a far more personal, which is not to say intimate, relationship with the planetary bodies than we do today, despite our ‘longing’ to reach some of them…
No mention of the Moon in the film, unfortunately, although all the night time locations were doused with water so that they would shine and glisten and throw shadows onto the screen…
‘He’s already in Hell,’ says the Porter and points to the sky, ‘or Heaven,’ he shrugs, and indicates the earth.
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