Happiness & Personal Reality - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
Happiness, control, and reality . The connections between them, their nature, and the subjectivity of each are a set of themes I realize I've come back to again and again all my life. I turned ten in 1971, the year that James Goldman's 1961 play, They Might Be Giants , was released as an occasionally absurdist, ultimately sentimental film starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward. In it, Scott plays a man who believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes. I was immediately taken by its wrestling with the question of the subjectivity of reality, happiness, and which of the two is more important. The title plays on Don Quixote - which also looms large in the film itself - and that benighted knight's view of the world, and in that specific instance, windmills. The film was released fifty years ago last week. Time continues to hammer me with reminders. Here's a trailer f...