Cat's Cradle: A Film Analysis

Good art evokes emotion. Films, paintings, symphonies, and books can all bring you from the highest ecstasy to the the lowest depression. Films especially, bring out an emotional response in many people, due to the realisticness, but film isn't real. Not even biographical or historical films, for it’s not the same people being recorded as it happens. Instead, it’s a semi-accurate recreation of the events after the fact. Excluding historical and biographical films, movies are actors portraying made-up people in a fabricated story on a constructed set using computer-generated images to create something that's not there. You're not even seeing this in real time, you're seeing colored light projected onto a screen. Looking at different wavelengths

Angela from Cat’s Cradle plays clarinet to keep herself from breaking down and crying. Hearing the beautiful music floors John with an overwhelming sense of awe and leaves him “flabbergasted by “the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease” (104), as she plays with harrowing emotion that rocks him and amazes him, as if she was “rolling on the floor, foaming at the mouth, and babbling fluent Babylonian” (105). This is truth. You experience it and it is real to you. It feels real, it looks real, it sounds real, but none of it is. The duality of truth is that something entirely fabricated and fake can have such a strong connection to the truth, and create something out of itself that is true. We intrinsically feel these emotions, but cannot explain why or how they work. There is no logical explanation for why our tear ducts sometimes overproduce the lubricant that allows our eyes to comfortably rest in their sockets, spilling over and pouring down our faces. Scientists who observe this can only speculate as to the cause of this inexplicable occurrence. Although animals in nature may shed tears due to pain or irritation, humans are the only species to cry due to feelings and

True understanding is wisdom. Wisdom is rare and cannot be communicated in any true form, it can only be experienced through one’s own actions. Wisdom is shaped by your own beliefs and experiences. Because it is subjective and hard to put into words, people often disagree with and are confused by wisdom. You can “learn” different facts and bits of information, but it fills your mind up until you forget it, as it does not majorly impact your life. Knowledge is a stronger form of education, and unlike wisdom, can be conveyed from person to person. Siddhartha becomes enlightened and gains the wisdom of the world, realizing that the wisdom he was searching for in his string of teachers could not be found with them; that wisdom “can be found, it can be lived… but it cannot be expressed in words and taught” (115). If you are to gain true wisdom, you must be out in the world for yourself. Once found, it is yours and yours alone. Occasionally, you can find some way to enunciate the basic idea of wisdom into a communicable form, people will say take it as a revelation and look at in awe. This awe in the wisdom is due to its sense of beauty. The parts of the revelation come together to form the final wisdom, the harmonious complete entity that brings you to a fuller understanding of the world. Truth is beautiful because it cannot be disputed once someone is convinced