Salt of Life is a special film and a joy to a watch. Yet it is a great example of the difficulty of squaring circles emotionally speaking.
An Italian film, with English sub titles, about Italy could lead us to think it was a reflection solely on Italian life. I believe it caricatures superbly how in all manner of human relationships we create behavioural patterns, no matter what country we live in. It parodies how our behaviours within those relationships can become habitual. Most of all it shows how easy it is to recognise those patterns in oneself, yet do little meaningful to address them effectively, let alone alter them permanently.
It shows how we can pattern ourselves to suborn completely our own interests to those of a parent, or a partner, or a child, thereby efffectively de-selfing ourselves.
We can allow a parent’s perceived needs to dominate our lives totally. We can know we are doing it, but can have done it long enough that to change it feels like trying to alter a whole way of life.
Can it be done? Without any doubt! It needs persistence and commitment. Most of all it needs a clear visualisation of how we will behave and what reaction we will attract, with the change in behaviour achieved.
Gerry Neale
Author of Novel: Squaring Circles
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