{"id":14135,"date":"2011-02-15T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:40:33","slug":"light-in-darkness-helena-ignez-icaro-martins-2010-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14135","title":{"rendered":"Light in Darkness (Helena Ignez, Icaro Martins, 2010): Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1311\">Katie Funk<\/a>. Viewed at Metro 4, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/auteurs_production\/stills\/17825\/w320.jpeg?1289475636\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1702002\/\">Light in Darkness (Lus Nas Trevas)<\/a> directed by Helena Ignez and Icaro Martins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the candle consumes the flame.<\/p>\n<p>The cigarette consumes the smoker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To live life chasing the feeling of being alive your own life can be lost.<\/p>\n<p>A light can be lost before the flame even goes out.<\/p>\n<p>Burning embers, the wax is almost completely melted.<\/p>\n<p>When there is no more fuel what happens to the fire?<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To blow up the world a revolted man closes his eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned souls close their eyes and freedom will arise.<\/p>\n<p>One can pretend that the prison walls have fallen<\/p>\n<p>But once their eyes open again the walls are back again.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is within the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking yourself free can only be done in your mind.<\/p>\n<p>You could be a free man walking yet still caging yourself from within.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ignoring your guide even as you follow it.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve accomplished this, you have arrived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One man follows a guide he does not know or understand.<\/p>\n<p>Leading him to the place where he can be found.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he chases the guide, giving his guide more attention than himself.<\/p>\n<p>A guide he never knew but emulates as himself.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the guides old self instead of the man the guide had become.<\/p>\n<p>He lost himself and he never even knew who his self was before he lost it.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The guide, however, saw all of this coming.<\/p>\n<p>Saying such inspiring quotes such as these.<\/p>\n<p>As his own son walks down the pathway he believed<\/p>\n<p>His dad would have been proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Yet his dad was within prison walls all the while learning to free his own mind.<\/p>\n<p>As his son sat on freedom&#8217;s doorstep putting up bar after bar to his own cage.<\/p>\n<p>Not once understanding, not once attempting to see the truth.<\/p>\n<p>He became lost.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>A flame without its candle.<\/p>\n<p>A cigarette without its smoker.<\/p>\n<p>A fire without its fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Katie Funk. Viewed at Metro 4, Santa Barbara. Light in Darkness (Lus Nas Trevas) directed by Helena Ignez and Icaro Martins. &#8220;As the candle consumes the flame. The cigarette consumes the smoker.&#8221; To live life chasing the feeling of being alive your own life can be lost. A light can be lost before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}