Some images just stick with you. For years I have had dreams of walking thru the waist-high grass floating my hands along the heads. When I saw this in the opening scene of Gladiator, I wept. Not because of the movie, which was stellar, but because here on the screen larger than life was the very image I dreamed.
I have watched that movie many times since that first time where I sat and quietly wept. Each time that image is so strong and evocative that I cry. But why? Because I have walked that field many times. Alone. Only once did I share that journey with someone else and he continued on alone to a place I could not follow. I hope that when I can, he is there to meet me and there will be no more weeping.
I love that you've posted this. I'm pretty sure that The New World starts with a similar shot of tall grass and person touching it as it sways in the wind. Powerful, powerful.
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