🔮 #27: The Young Pope / Alejandro Jodorowsky

⛪ The Young Pope

Para los que no hayáis visto The Young Pope de Paolo Sorrentino, es una serie increible.

Tenéis que aguantar los primeros capítulos, vale la pena, es mágica.

Os dejo aquí algunas escenas y citas:

“Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.”

Esther, I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me. God, the absence of God, always reassuring and definitive. I am a priest, I have renounced my fellow man, my fellow women, because I don’t want to suffer, because I’m incapable of withstanding the heartbreak of love, because I’m unhappy, like all priests. It would be wonderful to love you the way you want to be loved, but it’s not possible. Because I am not a man. I am a coward. Like all priests.

What is more beautiful, my love? Love lost or love found? Don’t laugh at me, my love. I know it, I’m awkward and naive when it comes to love, and I ask questions straight out of a pop song. This doubt overwhelms me and undermines me, my love. To find or to lose? All around me, people don’t stop yearning. Did they lose or did they find? I can’t say. An orphan has no way of knowing. An orphan lacks a first love, a love for his mama and papa. That’s the source of his awkwardness, his naiveté. You said to me, on that deserted beach in California, “you can touch my legs.” But I didn’t do it. There my love, is love lost. That’s why I’ve never stopped wondering since that day, where have you been and where you are now? And you, shining gleam of my misspent youth, did you lose or did you find? I don’t know, and I will never know. I can’t even remember your name, my love. And I don’t have the answer. But this is how I like to imagine it, the answer. In the end, my love, we have no choice. We have to find.

👁️ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Escritor, director teatral, director de cine, guionista de cine, actor, mimo, marionetista, compositor de bandas sonoras, escultor, pintor y escenógrafo, dibujante, instructor de tarot, psicoterapeuta y psicomago. Todo esto y mucho más es el chileno Alejandro Jodorowsky, un artista de los que siempre ve la botella medio llena. "No nos queda más salida que el optimismo", sostiene. Tan positivo es su pensamiento que incluso considera la crisis un mal necesario para construir un mundo mejor. Razón no le falta.

Para los que no conozcáis a Jodorowsky, es un personaje fascinante. Difícil de resumir, pero se podría decir que un artista, surrealista, mago, psicólogo, etc… Aunque no te creas nada de lo que dice, vale la pena solo por oírle.